Directors of defence
AI agents can now investigate, correlate and act on their own, which puts new pressure on the security decisions humans still have to own.
Most organisations have never had a security leader and never will.
According to Sophos research, there are roughly 359mn organisations worldwide and fewer than 35 000 people working full-time as security leaders, a ratio of about one in 10 000. To fill this gap, companies throw security tools at the problem. Gartner estimates that the average enterprise has more than 45 security tools in their security stack. “There will never be enough CISOs for every organisation,” says Joe Levy, Sophos CEO. “Agentic AI is how we start to put CISO-level judgement into the defences themselves.”
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