The 2023 edition of our annual top security recommendations equips security leaders to protect their organization, their budget, and their team — including themselves. Long-predicted technology disruptors will arrive; security budgets will stay the same or continue to grow (although at a lower rate), incentivizing other executives to find ways to shift costs to others; and CISOs will now face personal risks for decisions they made while doing business. This report provides security leaders with recommendations for handling the challenges they will encounter in the next 12 months.