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Cybersecurity leaders are being asked to secure a rapidly changing AI environment without a corresponding expansion in resources.
Summary
That tension is highlighted in the 2026 Security Budget Benchmark Report from IANS Research and Artico Search. According to the report, security budgets grew by an average of 5% this year, while 45% of organizations reported no increase and 10% reported a decrease. At the same time, 69% of CISOs identified AI for security as their top priority for new budget dollars.
The findings point to a difficult balancing act in which AI is creating new security requirements, but CISOs cannot assume they will receive substantially more funds or personnel to address them.
This summary is a partial excerpt — the source's own feed cuts off here. Read the full story at Techtarget for the rest.
KazaSec's take
Incidents like this rarely start with the headline event itself — they usually trace back to an exposed remote-access endpoint, an unpatched perimeter system, or a credential phished weeks earlier. The organizations that recover fastest are the ones that tested their defenses and their incident response plan before they needed them.
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