All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series 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. Thanks to our podcast sponsor, IANS Research CISOs, how does your compensation compare with your peers? Download IANS + Artico Search's 2022 CISO Compensation Benchmark Report. Find objective insights and comprehensive compensation data from over 500 CISOs across the U.S. and Canada. 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?