Security leaders’ ever-expanding jurisdictions are increasingly spreading beyond what any single executive can handle. A board-level reassessment of cyber and risk strategies is imperative, experts contend.

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CISOs are facing an unmanageable workload as their responsibilities have expanded dramatically beyond traditional security operations to include business risk, compliance, disaster recovery, IT operations, AI governance, and more—often without additional resources or authority. Over half of CISOs report their scope is no longer fully manageable, creating a single point of failure for organizations. Security experts recommend a fundamental restructuring of the CISO role, distributing responsibilities across specialized functions, elevating CISOs to true risk executive status with board access, and separating functions like privacy, physical security, and ESG that have been added out of convenience rather than strategic alignment.

With CISOs stretched thin, re-envisioning enterprise risk may be the only fix