Future of CISOs Positive Despite Budget and Transformation Challenges, Say Security Leaders

The best CISOs are those involved with transformation and using the current pandemic situation to establish new ideas and strategies.

Speaking on a virtual panel led by panel chair Ed Amoroso, founder and CEO of TAG Cyber and featuring speakers from HP and other companies, Charles Blauner, partner and CISO in Residence at Team8, said he felt the best CISOs are operating within organizations where they are business leaders.

Blauner said, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, he felt nothing had changed for the CISO from the daily job of being responsible for critical assets and protecting them irrespective of where they may be, whilst everything else in their world has changed. “Which assets were valuable and where they are accessed from is different from a year ago, and I don’t think it ever goes back to normal in the old definition,” he said.

Blauner explained that he sees budgets going down and also going up, as companies think about operational resiliency “and the really good CISOs, who understand how to build on the fact that security is such a foundational aspect of our operational resiliency,  are getting it right and expanding the definition of what it means ..

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