What are the biggest issues within IT that weaken cybersecurity efforts?
CIO Strategic Advisor in Services (non-Government), 2 - 10 employees
I was on this call with a group of CIOs and we were talking about strategic risk for an organization, a board level conversation. The conversation quickly devolved to technology solutions. I said, "Hold on a second, we need to talk about the different types of risk to understand the value to each: financial, reputational and legal. Value may not be the right place but value has a positive and a negative to it that equates to decisions you make.” But the conversation immediately devolved within one step to, "Let's talk about technology solutions for cybersecurity."And I'm like, "It's bigger than that." They talked about the same tools and processes that always come up: training and putting a good firewall in place. We've done this for 10-15 years and we don't have a better outcome—why aren't we stepping back and saying, "How do we do this differently to get a different outcome?" And I see a huge gap between the CISO and CIO, and the CEO and the board, in how they're looking at the organization.
CIO in Telecommunication, 1,001 - 5,000 employees
A company's ability to invest in their cybersecurity portfolio is limited. Any company's IT cost is about 2.5-3.5% of the revenue. With that, you are to maintain everything. Cybersecurity gets an allocation but at best it will be 1/3, it is still a small amount. With that budget, it's not practical to get the best of breed in terms of all the security products that are available out there. So, you need to prioritize according to the best that you can do, given the limited resources given to you.AVP- IT Operations, Self-employed
Security starts and ends with U and today main issue is U is missing.CIO in Education, 1,001 - 5,000 employees
Agree with other comments here; this is largely a people problem.Content you might like
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Without a doubt - Technical Debt! It's a ball and chain that creates an ever increasing drag on any organization, stifles innovation, and prevents transformation.Head of Information Security in Services (non-Government), 1,001 - 5,000 employees
In my prior role, M&A was so active that we had a dedicated group for it that comprised both business folks as well as those in IT. I had about four project managers within my corporate security PMO that were strictly ...read moreIncrease59%
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