The CISO's Imperative

The cyber threat landscape continues to evolve as criminals — both organised and state-backed — seek new opportunities to create chaos and extract profit. Cyber professionals, CISOs in particular, often feel as though they are running hard but making little progress.

The most rational mindset for security teams is to acknowledge they’ll never be able to protect against everything. This is a challenging message to communicate to executives. Organisations will likely always carry some degree of cyber risk and despite all due diligence, security controls can, and often do, fail. If companies try to protect against all potential risks, not only can the budget demand be burdensome, but the opportunity cost can be onerous given the impact of security measures on operations and business activities.

This blog explores eight considerations that CISOs and their teams should prioritise in 2023 to help mitigate the impact of cyber incidents and protect the future of those organisations.