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Regulatory volatility is now a major cyber risk. Adapt to maintain resilience.

Complimentary Gartner® cybersecurity trend report

Regulatory volatility is now a major cyber risk. Discover how to maintain resilience.

Shifting mandates across the globe are forcing CIOs and CISOs to rapidly rethink governance, incident response, and data sovereignty, as is our understanding of recent Gartner® research.

Alongside escalating geopolitical tensions and technonationalism, organisations face a “tidal wave” of mandates, including SEC disclosure rules, NYDFS, NIS2, DORA, the EU AI Act, and rapidly evolving APAC regulations.

We believe the Gartner report ¹, Cybersecurity Trend: Global Regulatory Volatility Drives Cyber Resilience Efforts, shows decision makers a path forward through the turbulence and emphasises why delay is not an option.

 

Why download?

  • Reduce legal and financial exposure: New mandates can increase accountability and liability for boards and executives
  • Build trust under pressure: Proactive, transparent compliance strengthens stakeholder confidence and brand resilience
  • Make resilience scalable: Unified control frameworks and automated processes help you adapt as regulations evolve.

Don’t miss out on this essential resource for CIOs, CISOs and business leaders. Download the report now and see what strategies you uncover to adapt to today’s volatile legislative environment.

What we think you’ll take away from this report:

  • How to move beyond IT-only compliance by building cross-functional accountability with legal, business, and procurement teams
  • How to simplify and align global policies using recognised standards (e.g., NIST, ISO) to reduce gaps and overlaps
  • How to operationalise rapid incident reporting requirement, including timelines that can be as short as 24 hours
  • How to address rising data sovereignty pressures with smarter cloud and vendor strategies and geographic controls
  • How proactive alignment can reduce exposure, minimising legal/financial liabilities, reducing regulatory fatigue, building stakeholder trust, and preventing costly business disruption.
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¹ Gartner Cybersecurity Trend: Global Regulatory Volatility Drives Cyber Resilience Efforts, Arthur Sivanathan, Charlie Winckless, Mia Yu, 14 January 2026

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