Disruption means constant change. This brings benefits to businesses and can improve customer loyalty. But, the costs tend to be new and large security challenges. Which raises the question: What role does the chief information security officer (CISO) hold in this ongoing transformation?
In this series, we’ll look at perpetual disruption and its impact on cybersecurity governance in multiple industries. First, we’ll start with health care.
‘Disruption:’ What Does the Buzzword Really Mean?
What is disruptive technology, exactly? It’s superior new tech that replaces inferior old tech and changes how an enterprise or industry operates. Popularized by the 1997 book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” the disruptive technology concept has long been a fact of life for businesses facing ongoing change. For example, look at the cloud, the Internet of things (IoT), virtual reality, augmented reality and blockchain.
The appeal of disruptive technologies is that — by definition — they offer clearly improved ways of doing things. But it also means facing new openings for threat actors, which brings the CISO role into focus.
What Good Cybersecurity Governance Looks Like
Where should the impetus for adding disruptive tech come from? Should governance drive change and growth? In an age of attacks and regulatory compliance, the answer is yes. But it’s more complex than that. IT governance is mostly the job of the chief information officer (CIO). However, the potential openings for attackers disruptive tech and perpetual disruption create are so huge that it’s also a job for the CISO role.
The default mode is to focus on the fraught connections between innovation and security — the idea that either ..
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