Resilient Cyber w/ Steve Martano - CISO's, Security Budgets & Careers

Resilient Cyber

In this episode of Resilient Cyber, we sit down with Steve Martano, Partner in the cyber Security Practice at Artico Search, to discuss the recent IANS & Artico Search Publications on the 2025 State of the CISO, security budgets, and broader security career dynamics.

Steve and I touched on some great topics, including:

• The 2025 State of the CISO report and key findings
• Board reporting cadences for CISO’s and the importance of Boardroom involvement in Cybersecurity
• The three archetypes of CISO’s: Tactical, Functional and Strategic
• How security leaders can advance their career to becoming strategic CISO’s as well as key considerations for organziation’s looking to attract and retain their security talent
• The growing scope of responsibility for CISO roles from not just Infosec but to broader IT, business risk, and digital strategy and implications for CISO’s
• Security budget trends, spending, macroeconomic factors and allocations

Here are a list of some of the great resources from IANS and Artico below on various areas of interest for CISO’s and Security leaders alike!

• https://www.iansresearch.com/resources/ians-security-budget-benchmark-report
• https://www.iansresearch.com/resources/ians-ciso-compensation-benchmark-report
• https://www.iansresearch.com/resources/ians-state-of-the-ciso-report
• https://www.iansresearch.com/resources/ians-leadership-organization-benchmark-report