Adapt to endure: navigating the current economic environment

A panel of security leaders discusses how to navigate economic pressures by aligning security investment with organizational risk appetite, consolidating tools to reduce complexity and cost, opportunistically hiring talent, and improving education and communication with boards. They emphasize prioritizing fundamentals—such as addressing misconfigurations, vulnerability management, MFA, and network segmentation—over chasing new tools, and stress transparency, early engagement with leadership, and pragmatic prioritization to sustain resilient security programs.