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Cyber Regret at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit: From Risk Dysfunction to Risk Agency
The Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit is running this week at National Harbor in Washington, DC, and the theme is "Smarter, Faster, Stronger... Together." Almost every session points in one direction, which is speed. The opening keynote called the next eighteen months a compressed decision cycle where the cost of waiting keeps rising. The Day 1 sessions covered how to secure AI agents before they act on their own, how to scale AI in cybersecurity while proving a return, and where security skills and tools will be by 2030. The message to the CISOs in the room is simple. Move faster, especially on AI.
One session says the opposite, and it is the one to watch. Gartner has a name for it now, cyber regret. The research describes a reckoning building in boardrooms over the cybersecurity money spent in recent years.
The CISO Storm: Why the Role Must Evolve into the Chief Digital Risk Officer
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is at the center of the storm—a whirlwind of cyber threats, regulatory demands, digital transformation, and fragmented risk management practices. Once a purely technical role, the CISO has been forced into a high-stakes balancing act, trying to secure not just IT infrastructure but the entire digital ecosystem of modern enterprises.
Meanwhile, cyber risk has become the defining business risk of the digital age. Yet, most organizations still treat the CISO as an IT specialist rather than a true enterprise risk leader. The problem isn’t just how CISOs are perceived—it’s that they are stuck in a broken system.
Why CISOs Are Struggling—And How Integrated Risk Management (IRM) Is the Answer
The financial services industry is grappling with an escalating crisis: cybersecurity leaders are overburdened, under-supported, and increasingly at risk—both professionally and personally. The rollout of the European Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and similar regulations has not only forced firms to overhaul their IT supply chains but has also driven nearly 80% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to report mental health impacts.