The digitization of the Global Economy accelerated with the COVID-19 pandemic, putting the CISO on the front lines of enterprise security and sustainability. An already complicated and important corporate role has become more vital and even more challenging as workforces virtualize, cyber talent becomes harder to recruit and retain, and the consequences of a cyber compromise continue to escalate...
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The CISO as a Leader on the Cyber Battleground
CISOs’ new-found power is unlikely to fade anytime soon. In addition to the pandemic, the drizzle of sophisticated hacking episodes have grown to a hammering torrent of constant zero-day exploits and phishing and ransomware attacks. Combined with dependence on weakly secured Internet of Things (IoT) devices and security concerns in ubiquitous mobile devices, the Internet age sometimes seems like the source of never-ending war.