Maverick Research: CISOs Must Transform Their Role or Become Obsolete by Gartner®
Maverick Research: CISOs Must Transform Their Role or Become Obsolete by Gartner®
Is the CISO Role Facing Obsolescence?
As cyber incidents become normalized, C-suites and boards are beginning to reduce fear-based spending on cybersecurity. Risk appetites are increasing as organizations realize that cyber risks are not the existential threats they were once assumed to be. Consequently, the CISO's traditional focus on protection is losing its value, forcing a critical transformation of the role.
This Gartner® Maverick research explores the controversial position that the CISO role as "chief incident protection officer" will soon be obsolete. It provides a strategic roadmap for security leaders to evolve, stay relevant, and deliver new forms of value to their organizations.
Our Key Highlights:
This report provides essential guidance for CISOs to navigate this shift. You will receive insights and recommendations such as:
- Executive leaders consistently misjudge risk by focusing on unlikely catastrophic scenarios, rather than the true equation of likelihood and impact.
- Adapt your approach to prioritize exceptional resource efficiency, freeing capacity for urgent executive initiatives.
- Under the premise that data breaches are now commonplace, the goal becomes minimizing impact and downtime.
- Broaden your scope to support profit centers by adopting GenAI, modernizing business continuity, and streamlining sales and revenue-generating activities.
Download the complimentary Gartner® report to understand the critical actions you must take to transform your role and get valuable insights to secure your organization's future.
We have 25,000 devices globally and a small IT team of six managing it all. Absolute is an integral part of ensuring device control and helping us use our resources efficiently.
Maverick Research: CISOs Must Transform Their Role or Become Obsolete by Gartner®
In our view, Gartner Maverick Research enables CISOs to redefine their impact — driving resilience, strategic value, and adaptability as the role transforms to meet changing leadership demands.
Is the CISO Role Facing Obsolescence?
As cyber incidents become normalized, C-suites and boards are beginning to reduce fear-based spending on cybersecurity. Risk appetites are increasing as organizations realize that cyber risks are not the existential threats they were once assumed to be. Consequently, the CISO's traditional focus on protection is losing its value, forcing a critical transformation of the role.
This Gartner® Maverick research explores the controversial position that the CISO role as "chief incident protection officer" will soon be obsolete. It provides a strategic roadmap for security leaders to evolve, stay relevant, and deliver new forms of value to their organizations.
Our Key Highlights:
This report provides essential guidance for CISOs to navigate this shift. You will receive insights and recommendations such as:
- Executive leaders consistently misjudge risk by focusing on unlikely catastrophic scenarios, rather than the true equation of likelihood and impact.
- Adapt your approach to prioritize exceptional resource efficiency, freeing capacity for urgent executive initiatives.
- Under the premise that data breaches are now commonplace, the goal becomes minimizing impact and downtime.
- Broaden your scope to support profit centers by adopting GenAI, modernizing business continuity, and streamlining sales and revenue-generating activities.
Download the complimentary Gartner® report to understand the critical actions you must take to transform your role and get valuable insights to secure your organization's future.
FAQs about Absolute Cyber Resilience
By being factory-embedded in OEM devices, Absolute provides out-of-the-box security without requiring additional installation. This allows organizations to maintain complete visibility and control over their endpoints, enforce security policies, and ensure critical applications remain operational. With built-in resilience, devices stay protected against cyber threats, unauthorized tampering, and compliance risks.
Endpoint Protection and Endpoint Detection and Response products help protect devices from today’s advanced cyber threats and ransomware. However, they aren’t infallible as their agents can be tampered with by employees or threat actors Through its resilient presence in the firmware, Absolute strengthens these security tools by remediating their agents, thus enforcing an organization’s security posture.
Absolute Ransomware Response is a stand-alone offering, which provides capabilities and services to assess an organization's ransomware preparedness and cyber hygiene across endpoints; ensures mission-critical security applications such as anti-malware and device management tools remain healthy and capable of self-healing; and expedites the quarantine and recovery of endpoints if a ransomware attack occurs.
The Absolute Ransomware Response product delivers the following capabilities:
- Check Strategic Ransomware Readiness Across Endpoints
- Enable Ransomware Cyber Hygiene Across Endpoints
- Report on Hardware and Software Inventory
- Assess Device Security Posture
- Discover Sensitive Endpoint Data
- Secure, On-Device End User Communications
- Freeze At-Risk Devices
- Expedite Recovery Tasks
- Self-Healing for Endpoint Security Tools
- Self-Healing for Device Management Tools
- Assist in Ransomware Recovery for Endpoints
We have 25,000 devices globally and a small IT team of six managing it all. Absolute is an integral part of ensuring device control and helping us use our resources efficiently.