Comparing the ancient role of preventing solar eclipses to the CISO’s mission of preventing breaches, this clip highlights the evolving perspective on resilience over prevention.
If you are like many CISOs, you feel pressure to increase the value of your security testing budget. And if you are one of the 53% of enterprises reporting stagnant or decreasing budgets in 2024, you have even more work cut out for you. Increasing testing value requires a re-evaluation of nearly everything. Tackle tool sprawl. Optimize workflows. Reduce false positives. Review cloud spend. All while demonstrating ROI even in the absence of incidents. This post is about ways to reach these goals.
The constant demands of the CISO role take a toll on personal health and family time. Learn why burnout and hiring challenges persist in the industry.
The notification lands in my SecurityScorecard dashboard just as I’m wrapping up a meeting. An employee’s email address has shown up in a password dump on a dark web monitoring feed. Another day, another reminder of why cybersecurity is a full-contact sport.
It’s mid-morning, and I’m making good progress when an email from a department head pops into my inbox. They’re thrilled about a new plugin that promises to streamline workflows for one of our most critical platforms. Naturally, they need me to sign off on the vendor’s security posture before they can move forward. I get it—business efficiency is important, but so is ensuring we don’t invite unnecessary risk into our environment.
Is a CISO really at fault for breaches, or is it an organisational failure? Discover the impact of company culture and reporting structures on a CISO's success.
Join us for part one of our two-part series examining the world of Chief Information Security Officers. This episode welcomes back Richard Cassidy, Field CISO at Rubrik, and Oliver Rochford, former Gartner analyst and founder of Cyberfuturist. This episode offers insights that will give you insight into what makes security leadership successful - and what can lead to failure.
In this episode of To the Point, Teri Takai, Senior Vice President for the Center for Digital Government, and renowned public-sector technology leader, brings her wealth of experience to highlight the shifting priorities for state CIOs and CISOs as they prepare for the complexities that they face in a constantly evolving cyber landscape. From AI safeguards to the critical role of data management, this episode provides actionable insights for IT leaders at every level.