CISO
We've curated 125 cybersecurity statistics about CISO to help you understand how the role of Chief Information Security Officers is adapting to new threats, technologies, and strategies in 2025.
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Two-thirds of CISOs report feeling burned out weekly or daily.
13% of CISOs oversee 50 or more security tools.
82% of CISOs say they are under pressure from executives or boards to reduce staff using AI.
39% of CISOs say they often feel blamed, even when incidents fall outside their direct control.
CISO confusion about cyber insurance policy coverage for supply-chain attacks decreased from 58% in 2024 to 43% in 2025.
40% of CISOs considered leaving their role altogether.
82% of CISOs feel confident quantifying risk.
57% of CISOs report that half or fewer of their security tools deliver measurable Return on Investment (ROI).
78% of CISOs lack a formal strategy for handling AI identities in a zero trust security architecture in 2025.
33% of CISOs rank external threats as their number-one stressor.
54% of CISOs lack standardized, business-relevant metrics.
73% of U.S. CISOs reported facing a significant cyber incident in the past six months.
65% of CISOs manage 20 or more security tools.
Overall concern among U.S. CISOs about a breach fell from 86% in 2024 to 62% in 2025.
Boards most often ask CISOs for the following metrics: risk-reduction trendlines (51%), quantified business impact (47%), and incident-response performance metrics (40%).
Nearly 20% of recent incidents reported by CISOs were already AI-related.
90% of CISOs say their role may be at risk to some degree if a breach were to occur.
87% of CISOs say pressure in their role has increased over the past year.
78% of U.S. CISOs expect AI to create a moderate or significant amount of new IT or security work for their teams due to AI-related security risks and vulnerabilities.
56% of CISOs say their security tools don’t integrate fully.