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How AI Is Changing CISO Budgets and Security Team Structures

Dark Reading · 7 Oct 2026

Key Takeaway When weighing any AI-based security tool or spend, ask how you will measure its value and who in your team will manage it.

Dark Reading has published a video interview with Nick Kakolowski, senior director for CISO research at IANS. The conversation looks at how artificial intelligence is affecting the work of chief information security officers.

According to the summary, the discussion covers three areas: budgets, return on investment (ROI), and changes inside security teams. The published summary does not give specific figures, findings or recommendations, so the full interview is the place to find the detail.

For Australian small businesses, the topic is a reminder that AI is now part of security planning conversations at senior level. Questions about where to spend, how to measure value and how roles may change are worth considering, even at a much smaller scale.

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Summarised by CISO AI from Dark Reading, written with Claude Sonnet 5.5. We link back to every original so you can read it yourself.