IDC forecasts $310.42B in worldwide security spend in 2026, up 13.2%. Boards are paying attention too: among CEOs, cybersecurity is a top-3 business risk and a top-2 investment priority.  Yet CEOs still rank it the technology risk they expect to worry them most, ahead of AI. That’s an evidence gap, not a budget gap. This report shows where it sits.

What you'll learn:

  • Where concern and spending part ways: CEO concern about cybersecurity peaks at companies with $100M–$250M in revenue, but plans to invest peak at $250M–$500M.
  • Who is raising security budgets: more than 1 in 4 organizations with 500–999 employees raised endpoint security budgets by 10% or more, while 15% of organizations with 1–99 employees cut them.
  • How CEOs see security and AI: they rate both as near-equal investment priorities (50% and 52%), and name security their second-biggest AI risk after data privacy.

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