The overwhelming demands on security leaders today can have a paralyzing effect. Gartner analysts provided guidance to security and risk leaders and practitioners on how to be empowered to adapt their people, processes and technologies to address the old and the new; to transform their approach to risk governance to be more continuous and inclusive; and to scale their security capabilities in other ways than by hiring more people.

Much of this empowerment can come from addressing three simple questions: What’s important? What’s dangerous? What’s real? These questions can provide clarity and the intersection of the questions can change a perception and lead to action: