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The global CISO landscape: A leadership gap too large to ignore

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Feed Name: Sophos Blogs

Date Published: 2026-03-23

Date Updated: 2026-04-30

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The 2026 CISO Report (Cybersecurity Ventures with Sophos) highlights a global shortage of CISOs—an estimated 35,000 serving ~359 million businesses—rising cybercrime costs projected to $12.2 trillion by 2031, high CISO burnout and short tenures, and disproportionate exposure of SMBs; it argues MSPs/MSSPs and Sophos' newly formed CISO Advantage (via acquisition of Arco Cyber) can scale CISO-level leadership and governance to underserved organizations.

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