"A view from the CISO: Key Pressures and Trends Impacting their Role"

Small- and mid-size businesses (SMBs) can no longer afford to think they’re too small to be a target for cybercriminals. That’s why SMBs should consider new or expanded investment in a comprehensive security awareness program to help address the growing risks related to cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory compliance.

Data is among an organization’s most valuable assets. Its management and protection should be viewed as a mission-critical stewardship rather than mere compliance. Larger and more costly cybersecurity incidents coincide with annually increasing regulatory and liability pressures. Looming U.S. privacy legislation on the horizon coupled with the General Data Protection Regulation’s impacts (Google recently received a $57 million fine), intensifies pressure on organizations to understand their legal compliance obligations and to safeguard private information.

When was the last time you had a breach? Are you sure? Today’s attackers are remarkably sophisticated—and can lie in wait for months before you even notice their presence. Here’s the hard truth: if you haven’t detected an attack/compromise in the last 12 months, it is NOT because it’s not happening – it’s because you’re not looking in the right places. A compromise in your network is inevitable – if it isn’t already happening now, it will soon. Given that 100% security simply doesn’t exist, what can you do to control and minimize the damage from attacks? In this previously recorded webinar, my firm will provide a playbook for approaching organizational security from this perspective. You’ll learn how a proper foundation for security is key, followed by proactive threat hunting and active defense.

Today’s threat landscape requires businesses of all sizes to gain visibility and control over sensitive data in order to comply with a tangled web of security and privacy requirements. Addressing insider threats and defending intellectual property, customer data and other confidential information across hybrid and multi-cloud environments can overwhelm even the savviest of security and IT teams, especially when resources are scarce. However, data security defenses don’t have to be costly or overly complex to carry out.