As 2020 nears its end, CISOs and infosec teams are expected to prepare board and C-suite briefings on the state of their organization's cybersecurity posture, including a comprehensive 2021 cybersecurity budget. This is no small feat, as one of the major issues plaguing CISOs today is that there is little visibility into an enterprise's attack surface. According to a Ponemon Institute survey, 88% of breaches are due to poor cyber hygiene that skews the outlook of a company's security posture. Ultimately, this means that security pros remain faced with the challenge of maintaining comprehensive visibility over their complex attack surface while also combating the evolving threat landscape.
What's more, recent statistics confirm that 16 billion records were exposed in the first half of 2020. As such, CISOs and security teams are overwhelmed by the challenge of maintaining and optimizing security posture, which can be an impediment to developing a strategic cybersecurity outlook for the board and C-suite. Given this lack of clarity into the attack surface and security posture, how can CISOs present a unified and strategic vision for 2021?
Step One: Gain an Understanding of the Organization's Cybersecurity PostureWith billions of security signals across an enterprise attack surface, CISOs must start with obtaining continuous, comprehensive visibility of the risks to their organization by utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) and deep-learning tools to make sense of this vast number of signals.
Since board members and other senior executives are rarely skilled cybersecurity pros, CISOs are best served by quantifying ..
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