Digital Transformation Breaks Risk Management – Chris Morales – BSW #323
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1. Digital Transformation Breaks Risk Management – Chris Morales – BSW #323
CEOs and boards struggle with their digital transformation process. Does their operations hinder or align with business initiatives? Has their security operations scaled to meet the data and digital demands to protect against business risk? In today’s episode, we’re talking to Chris Morales, CISO at Netenrich, who’ll provide compelling insights towards security transformation. Security organizations all face similar security challenges of too much data, siloed teams, underperforming legacy tools, and time-consuming and laborious threat investigation work. We’ll discuss the approach enterprises need to consider in advancing their security maturity. It’s one that’s data-driven, adaptive, and predictive.
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As an industry leader, Chris Morales oversees Netenrich’s security vision and strategy as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Head of Security Strategy. He’s well known and respected in security circles as an innovative leader and technical expert. Throughout his career, he has advised and designed incident response and threat management programs for some of the world’s largest enterprises. Chris most recently led advisory services and security analytics at Vectra AI. He has also held roles in cybersecurity engineering, consulting, sales, and research at companies including HyTrust, NSS Labs, 451 Research, Accuvant, McAfee and IBM.
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2. Valuing Cybersecurity Investment, Cybersecurity is a CFO Issues, and CISO Career Path – BSW #323
In the leadership and communications section, The Data Your Board Actually Wants to Hear About When Valuing Cybersecurity Investments, Cybersecurity is a CFO issue, Must-know insights when navigating the CISO career path, and more!
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- 1. The Data Your Board Actually Wants to Hear About When Valuing Cybersecurity Investments
A Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) must think carefully about how to present plans for new cybersecurity investments to your board. After all, the board has many other priorities competing for its blessing — so while board directors might want to support cybersecurity in theory, getting them to support your investment plans in practice can be hard. Success requires a deft, thoughtful approach.
- 2. Cybersecurity is a CFO issue
Don’t read the word “cybersecurity” and assume it’s a problem for your IT department or CISO: In 2023, cybersecurity is firmly a CFO issue, according to Naj Adib, an advisory principal in Deloitte’s cyber and strategic risk practice.
- 3. How to land a corporate board seat as a CISO
Any CISO who aspires to a corporate board seat needs a strategic approach. Learn how security executives can position themselves to become top-level decision-makers.
- 4. Must-know insights when navigating the CISO career path – CyberTalk
Succeeding within a CISO role requires a unique skill set and a unique blend of industry perspectives. In this article, we’ll highlight essential approaches for both aspiring and seasoned CISOs to pursue in setting themselves up for success.
- 5. MGM, Caesars Attacks Hold Cybersecurity Lessons for Tech Pros
These disruptive and destructive incidents involving MGM and Caesars should not be viewed in isolation, experts noted. Instead, these ransomware attacks require study. Through a better understanding of what happened, tech professionals have a chance to take some key lessons away from these incidents and work to improve their organization’s security posture, which can prevent or minimize future attacks, whether it’s ransomware or some other type of threat.
- 6. House passes cybersecurity employment equality bill introduced by Rep. Mace
On Oct. 2, the United States House of Representatives passed the MACE Act 394-1, a bipartisan bill intended to modernize federal cybersecurity job requirements to foster a more diverse and competitive workforce.
