Cyber Strategies 2025
Cyber security strategy, education and resilience; building out the workforce training via roadmapping.
Community - sharing knowledge between organisations, and stop siloing each other. Technology is not just about updating your password and using biometrics or two step authentication, these can be bypassed. IoT devices are evolving. Pooling out knowledge with peers, alongside data protection and encryption, access management, network security and disaster recovery plans must be consistently reevaluated.
Team Collaboration - employee wellbeing and asking the pivotal question, are you happy? OKRs - objectives and key results. KPIs - key performance indicators.
Resilience Mindset - adopting growth, business trends, and security support. CISO, top management, advisors and analysts need to build stronger awareness and better defences. Regular check-in’s, briefing meetings, and communication with internal and external teams. Share knowledge in community (POC). Prevent, respond and recover from cyber attacks. Segment the network, as part of damage control, and have clear routines, firewall rules and updates, and avoid misconfigurations.
Adaptability - embracing technology and the next generation of leaders.
Roles and Responsibilities - CISO role could act as a function, trickle down effect onto wider teams, giving juniors and mid-level analysts a chance to do it right, while leaders and directors act as drivers. Cyber security is driven by ‘people’ and technology advancements. There is a need for a ‘reset’ in training, upskilling, education, and championing of roles. CISO and top-level management need support functions and advisors, social responsibility to keep up with trends, economy, socially, politically, make decisions, and be passionate.
Organisational Culture - It’s not just about phishing simulations and online training / certifications, but the culture being instilled onto the team. Are they passionate about being here? I still feel the same way I did when I walked into the industry years ago. Zero Trust security frameworks rely on strict identity verification, continuous monitoring, and micro-segmentation of networks. AI has the ability to enhance Zero Trust by enabling real-time user authentication, behavioural analysis, and automated access control decisions.
