{"id":880641,"date":"2026-10-21T08:31:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=880641"},"modified":"2026-10-21T08:31:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T06:31:57","slug":"your-2027-cyber-budget-is-probably-funding-the-wrong-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/880641\/your-2027-cyber-budget-is-probably-funding-the-wrong-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Your 2027 Cyber Budget Is Probably Funding the Wrong Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every year, security budgets get approved on a familiar list: new tools, renewed licences and leftover projects. And every year, organisations are breached through gaps that list never covered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As boards finalise their 2027 budgets, security leaders need to answer one question: <strong>if a serious cyber incident hit tomorrow, which of these investments would help the organisation withstand it and recover?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webinars.wolfpackrisk.com\/register26?utm_source=mybroadband&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_campaign=wp-webinar-2027&amp;utm_content=mybroadband&amp;utm_term=wp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to register for Wolfpack and Risk X Group\u2019s final webinar of 2026.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>AI is changing both attack and defence. Skills are scarce, third-party ecosystems keep growing, and boards and regulators want more proof of resilience. Adding projects won\u2019t fix this. Leaders have to make hard choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On <strong>Thursday, 5 November 2026<\/strong>, Wolfpack and Risk X Group will tackle those choices in the final edition of their <em>Cyber Security at the Speed of Risk<\/em> series: <strong>Building Future-Ready Cyber Resilience: What Security Leaders Should Prioritise for 2027.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig Rosewarne, Chief Solutions Officer; Andrew Dalrymple, Group CEO; and Johan Van Zyl, Chief Operations Officer, will share what 2026 taught the industry, where organisations should focus over the next 12\u201318 months, and what they should stop doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What the session will cover<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Start with what you can\u2019t afford to lose.<\/strong> Identify the services, data and suppliers your business depends on most, and which controls are proven rather than assumed. That\u2019s how you link every rand to a real risk and defend your priorities to the board.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Give AI a job, or it will create one for you.<\/strong> AI without a clear purpose adds to your attack surface. Decide where it improves capability, what it can access and who checks its outputs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Build, buy or borrow your skills.<\/strong> Tools without the people to run them are an expensive mistake. Decide what stays in-house, where teams can grow, and where virtual CISOs, Cyber Associates or external experts fill the gaps.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Your controls work. Do they work together?<\/strong> Testing should drive remediation, detection should trigger a rehearsed response, and recovery plans should be exercised. Individual controls offer limited assurance if no one has tested them together under pressure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leave with a roadmap<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Attendees will get a practical framework for setting their own 2027 priorities, plus the <strong>2027 Cyber Resilience Planning Checklist<\/strong>. It covers governance, skills, AI, offensive security, detection and response, third-party risk, resilience and human risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session will also explain what <strong>Wolfpack\u2019s acquisition by Risk X Group<\/strong> means for clients, including access to strategic advisory, human risk, specialist skills, offensive security and managed cyber defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don\u2019t sign off your 2027 plan before you\u2019ve tuned in<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Building Future-Ready Cyber Resilience: What Security Leaders Should Prioritise for 2027<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Date:<\/strong> Thursday, 5 November 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Time:<\/strong> 9\u201310am SAST<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Live webinar<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Speakers:<\/strong> Andrew Dalrymple, Craig Rosewarne and Johan Van Zyl<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webinars.wolfpackrisk.com\/register26?utm_source=mybroadband&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_campaign=wp-webinar-2027&amp;utm_content=mybroadband&amp;utm_term=wp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to register<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>2027 starts now. Reserve your place and begin shaping your organisation\u2019s cyber resilience roadmap<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2027 starts now. Reserve your place.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfpack and Risk X Group\u2019s final webinar of 2026 asks security leaders to stop buying more security projects and start building real resilience, before the 2027 budget is signed off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":880644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2112794266799902945","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2244105193076546","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[26861,1320,26860,23114,25404,10159],"class_list":["post-880641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-cyber-budget","tag-cyber-security","tag-risk-x-group","tag-webinar","tag-wolfpack","tag-wolfpack-information-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":880667,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880641\/revisions\/880667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}