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CYBERTHREATS WITH A NEW SECURITY
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C
hief Information Security Officers (CISOs)
and other information security executives
increasingly find themselves in the line
of fire and not just from cyberattackers. These
security professionals are being bombarded with
escalating demands and expectations from CEOs
and corporate boards who find their digitally
dependent organisations at significant risk from a
wide variety of cyberthreats.
The rapid emergence of cybersecurity as a critical
business concern has thrust CISOs and their
infosec teams into the spotlight. On the bright
side, this new prominence gives security executives
the opportunity to play roles that are more
strategic and impactful within their organisations.
Conversely, CISOs who do not fully grasp the
broad range of business objectives being pursued
by the C-suite – objectives both within and beyond
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the security realm – risk being marginalised and may
struggle to succeed.
The growing volume and diversity of cyberattacks
aren’t the only factors driving the rise of
cybersecurity’s strategic importance. Also at play is
a rising recognition that cybersecurity is more than
a discrete and isolated IT function. CISOs focused
only on protecting data, repelling attackers and
providing other IT defences are missing the bigger
business picture.
Beyond delivering their core functions, security
technologies, architectures and policies have
broader effects that can ripple throughout an
organisation. The ways in which cybersecurity
is deployed can affect everything from an
organisation’s IT budget to the complexity of its IT
infrastructure and even a company’s overall ability
to be agile, efficient and innovative. n
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