FEATURE : 2025 CIOS ’ PRIORITY
Windows 10 in 2025 . CIOs must plan for hardware upgrades to meet the security requirements of newer operating systems while managing the transition to alternative platforms for systems that become obsolete . going to shift away from being an afterthought of IT that Security teams need to address to keep their customers safe and will become an operational concern with leaders reporting directly to the C-suite .
By prioritizing these areas -quantum readiness , identity security , AI risk management , and infrastructure upgrades – CIOs will be better positioned to mitigate emerging threats and protect their organizations in 2025 .
Dwayne McDaniel , Developer Advocate , GitGuardian
Non-human identities will come into focus as a major security and operational issue , and we need new approaches and more resources . As CISOs and other executives move to make their enterprises more resilient , Identity and Access Management ( IAM ) is
While much of the current focus of IAM is on human identity and access , the markets are beginning to recognize the magnitude of the risk that mismanaged machine identities and their long-lived access keys pose to the whole of the enterprise . This builds on the already accelerating shift we have seen from focusing on hardening network perimeters to one of zero trust identity-based defenses that assume a breach is eventually inevitable .
New budgets will be created , and allocated budgets for IT and security will be redirected to solve both the symptom secrets sprawl and find better ways to manage the non-human identity lifecycle . We will see a new
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