Today’s CISOs do not have the easiest job. They are tasked with safeguarding a company’s digital, identity, and data assets, protecting customer data, maintaining trust with stakeholders, achieving and maintaining a variety of changing compliance standards and frameworks, all while being asked to consolidate budget and communicate their impact to leadership.
By returning to the grassroots of information security and remembering that there’s room for creative thinking in cybersecurity, CISOs can spend less time saying “no” and more time exploring new solutions, optimizing programs, and building strong connections with their teams.
New report from IANS Research and Artico Search shows that the average security budget is only up by 6% this year, representing a 65% decrease in cybersecurity spending from the prior year.
While SaaS increases business efficiency, it also represents a significant challenge for CISOs, who now have less direct control over their organizations’ data, including business information, proprietary information, and even employee data, that is now overwhelmingly in various SaaS systems.
Here are the top cyber hygiene routines all CISOs should embrace in their daily network care routines to stay ahead of cyber attacks.