The bitterest pill to swallow for many mid-market CFOs is not that their cybersecurity budget is growing. It is that some of what they already spend has stopped making economic sense.
Artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain-based finance are attacking three different assumptions on which the modern security stack was built. AI challenges the economics of human-centered detection and response. Quantum challenges the expected lifespan of cryptography. Digital money challenges the separation between cybersecurity infrastructure and financial infrastructure.
That’s creating a more complicated capital-allocation problem than another round of security-tool purchasing.
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