CISOs have come a long way, baby. From their roots in analyzing and addressing information security and controls, most CISOs have expanded their roles by hiring great talent and fighting incidents very well. Moreover, they are now firmly established at the board level now that cybersecurity is a top concern for boards and we are educating our leaders.
Historically, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) have been synonymous with helping to protect the enterprise and its information assets and to help mitigate organizational risk. But with CEOs and board members primarily focused on growing the business, CISOs are increasingly being looked upon to help strike a balance between growing the business and pushing digital strategies forward while protecting the organization.
Among the priorities competing for the attention of CIOs in 2018, improving cyber security has moved furthest up the radar, jumping 23% from 2017 to 2018 from 40% to 49% in the Harvey Nash/KPMG CIO Survey 2018.
Savvy Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are taking bold steps to demonstrate their value to the CEO and board of directors and validate their seat at the table among the C-suite.
One of the challenges that IT risk management and information security teams face in their efforts to protect the enterprise is that company-wide security practices and requirements are often looked upon as a hindrance to organizational agility and innovation.
In today's world, the most successful CISOs would agree that cybersecurity is an enterprise risk/business risk issue much more than an IT issue.
Bryce Austin, Strategist and CEO of TCE Strategy, explains the importance of cybersecurity planning.
James McJunkin, VP & CISO at Discover Financial Services, considers veterans and law enforcement professionals as top recruits for information and cyber security roles for a variety of reasons.
Thomas Sammel, Principal and Head of Cybersecurity at KKR & Co., speaks on threat intelligence.
Measuring the effectiveness and performance of cybersecurity programs enables CISOs and other information security executives to demonstrate to the C-suite and to the board how the organization’s cybersecurity measures are performing, where there are gaps, along with identifying opportunities for increasing investments as-needed.
Since 2009, Davies has been a veritable globe-trotter, having held senior cybersecurity positions at Siemens, Hewlett-Packard/HPE, and currently, at Barclays Africa Group in Cape Town, South Africa, where she is Chief Security Officer.
Cyber-attacks have become more complex and sophisticated than ever. Even with state-of-the-art tools in its arsenal, a company’s technological defense will only take it so far. In order to keep pace with evolving cyber threats, employee and executive cyber security awareness is critical.
Dr. Robert Zandoli, Global CISO at BUNGE LTD., speaks on the deployment of cyber war games as imperative to an organization.
Jason Hengels, Founder and CISO for Hire at Exposure Security, explains the importance of assessing an organization’s critical assets and their vulnerabilities and then developing a risk-based roadmap for addressing them.
Larry Clinton, President of the Internet Security Alliance and John Iannarelli, Former Senior Executive Advisor for the FBI will be speaking at the upcoming Chicago CISO Executive Leadership Summit on June 20th.
Today’s technology executive plays a pivotal role in helping his or her organization respond to these forces of change. In essence, they serve as conductors to orchestrate the three pillars of organizational success – people, processes, and technology – and to draw upon their unique view of the enterprise to bring these elements into harmony.
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