Cybersecurity Issues and Observations for 2025
Dr. Ed Amoroso is back with another probing inquiry into the evolving role and current mindset of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) including today’s cybersecurity issues and observations. Heading into 2025, CISOs and their companies are under pressure from all sides. How can they balance risk management, innovation and business alignment- ensuring a robust cybersecurity posture while navigating emerging technologies, sophisticated threats, regulatory requirements- and potential personal liability? How do AI and GenAI make things worse and better? This session explores how CISOs are approaching their security strategy, collaboration, and leadership, highlighting the trends and challenges that will define their priorities and influence their decision-making in the year ahead.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Ed Amoroso is Founder and CEO of TAG Infosphere, a global research and advisory company focused on cybersecurity, climate tech and AI. Ed started TAG Cyber (now TAG Infosphere) in 2016 to democratize research and advisory services, support enterprise security teams and commercial security vendors, and unleash his inner entrepreneur. Business Insider tapped him as one of the country’s 50 leaders “who helped lead the cyber security industry.” He is an experienced CEO, Chief Security Officer, and Chief Information Security Officer (the second person in history to hold the position), Security Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Researcher, and Author of six books on cybersecurity as well as dozens of research and technical papers in major peer-reviewed publications.
Ed’s 30+ year career in the telecommunications industry began in UNIX security R&D at Bell Labs and culminated in his roles as SVP/CSO/CISO at AT&T from 2004 to 2016. He has directly served four Presidential Administrations in cybersecurity, and now serves as a Member of the NSA Advisory Board (NSAAB), a Member of the M&T Bank Board of Directors, Senior Advisor for the Applied Physics Lab at Johns Hopkins University, a Research Professor at the Tandon School of Engineering at NYU, and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology, where he has taught for the past thirty years. Ed holds a B.S. degree in physics from Dickinson College, M.S./Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Stevens Institute of Technology, and is also a graduate of Columbia Business School.
Resources
Free publications courtesy of the TAG InfoSphere team:
- TAG Cyber Security Annual 2024 1st Quarterly: SEC vs CISO
- TAG AI Quarterly 2024 2nd Quarterly: Mapping Artificial Intelligence
- TAG Cyber Security Annual 2022 3rd Quarterly: China & Cybersecurity, A Special Edition
- TAG Cyber Security Annual 2023 1st Quarterly: Deepfakes, A Special Edition
- TAG Cyber Insurance Journal 2025: What’s Next In Cyber Insurance
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