CISO Succession Crisis Highlights How Turnover Amplifies Security Risks

This article analyzes the escalating scope and pressure on CISOs—spanning business leadership, risk management, board reporting, and crisis response—especially amid M&A activity, and how this contributes to burnout and high turnover. It details the operational fallout of frequent leadership changes, including stalled controls, lost institutional knowledge, and repeated resets, and recommends stronger succession planning, redundancy, leadership pipelines, and elevating CISO authority to improve continuity and resilience.