The Changing Role of the Chief Information Security Officer: What Every CISO Should Know
April 7, 2015
Grazed from DarkReading. Author: Tim Wilson.
In past years, the job of the enterprise chief information security officer (CISO) was to establish and maintain a security perimeter around corporate data and a strategy for defending it. But today’s CISO is faced with a wide variety of new challenges that the security department has never seen before.
While cloud computing, open source, distributed and outsourced software development, bring-your-own-device policies, and other initiatives create “shadow IT” environments that often take control out of the CISO’s hands, the steady barrage of high-volume, high-publicity security breaches in the headlines are putting unprecedented pressures on the CISO’s office. The reality is that today’s CISO is under more scrutiny than ever – including from the board – and yet, he/she has less control over the IT environment than ever before…
How should the CISO – indeed, the entire IT department – respond to these new challenges and pressures? In a special live videocast on Apr. 14, industry experts will discuss these very questions…
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