Kurt John is Chief Cybersecurity Officer of Siemens USA, where he is responsible for the information security strategy, governance and implementation for the company’s largest market with ~$23B in annual revenues. In this interview with Help Net Security, he explores a variety of smart security decisions.
Kurt discusses the challenges modern CISO have to deal with, the importance of IT security certification, he provides his opinion on what an ideal cybersecurity candidate looks like, and much more.
What advice would you give to a newly appointed CISO that was tasked with hiring more security professionals in order to strengthen overall enterprise security?
I would say that we can’t solely depend on data and machine learning tools to guard against hackers trying to break into networks. We need people making sense of the information. Analytics might detect things, but it’s the human ..
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