As a CISO, what are the top 3 tasks that take up the most of your time in an average week?
Security operations58%
Writing policies56%
Vendor management50%
Business strategy35%
Other (comment below)2%
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Security operations58%
Writing policies56%
Vendor management50%
Business strategy35%
Other (comment below)2%
Resistance from IT teams22%
Architecting and Designing48%
Integrating with legacy and existing infrastructure59%
Resistance from security teams30%
Long deployment times22%
Synchronizing network and security across branch locations19%
Productivity disruption7%
Free of charge to all customers17%
Custom service modules or packages (add-ons)62%
Selective applications (only strategic customers get CS free of charge)12%
Tiered pricing6%
Other2%
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