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Cybersecurity budgets are increasing, by a lot. What's fueling the increase and where are those budgets being spent?

Check out this post for the discussions that are the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn. We welcome our sponsored guest sponsored guest Nick Kakolowski, senior director of research at IANS Research.

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In this episode:

• What's fueling the increase in cybersecurity budgets and where are those budgets being spent?
• Do we understand where the money is being spent? Is it on new hires? More tooling?
• Does training new hires provide a good ROI for an increased budget?
• Should we equate the success of a security program with the size of the budget? Or not?