CISOs face a deepening cybersecurity talent shortage, with 95% of practitioners reporting skills gaps at their organizations. Keith Turpin (The Friedkin Group) and Juan Gomez-Sanchez (McLane Company) share strategies for addressing this: transitioning IT professionals into security roles (a process taking roughly two years), treating talent gaps as a first-class security risk tracked as a KPI, and making architecture and tooling decisions that account for staffing constraints. AI compounds the problem by enabling attackers at greater scale while also offering some defensive automation, but agentic AI capabilities for security remain immature. CISOs are rethinking hiring, training, insourcing vs. outsourcing, and platform consolidation as structural responses to the persistent talent squeeze.
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