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European CISOs are shifting how they spend on security in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and are having to adopt to a raft of new proposed EU cyber regulations.
Forrester has recently explored three security topics: that of European cyber regulations, European CISO budgetary trends in 2021, and finally the career paths of CISOs at major UK FTSE 100 organizations.
What becomes apparent is that European CISOs are shifting how they spend on security in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and are having to adopt to a raft of new proposed EU cyber regulations.
European leaders shift new spending to cloud-based security services.
Ninety percent of security leaders Forrester surveyed are planning to maintain or increase the amount they spend on securing the cloud and delivery of security controls from the cloud.
If these regulations pass, it will set the marker for bold cybersecurity regulation for the wider world to take notice of, particularly the US. UK security leaders have less time to make their mark on their organization than in the US. In Forrester's first of a series of reports that will look at the career path and experiences of CISOs in Europe, we have completed analysis of career paths taken by UK FTSE 100 CISOs and compared these to the analysis of the Fortune 500 in the US There are some fascinating results: First, UK CISOs have a much shorter tenure than we see in our US client base, lasting 31 months on average compared to just over 4 years for US-based CISOs.