Does your org’s security team include anyone with a background in data science?

Team & Organizational Design Security Strategy & Roadmap

Yes - one person34%

Yes - multiple people 51%

No11%

I don’t know - show results2%

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Director of IT in Banking9 months ago

These results are super interesting and not at all what I expected. I wonder if respondents are including fraud analysis and similar roles. I may need to update my thinking on what a security team is.

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