Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit

Among the host of C-suite titles, the CISO is perhaps the most unique. CISOs are at the frontlines of maintaining security in a rapidly evolving threat landscape punctuated with relentless threat actors. In the UAE, CISOs in both the private and public sectors face incredible challenges. Their organizations demand best-in-class security as well as the agility and speed needed to make the right decisions and balance enterprise-related risks and benefits.

Third parties represent a significant cyber security risk. 74 percent of organizations say they had experienced a cybersecurity breach in the previous 12 months because they gave “too much privileged access” to third parties. Not only are their numbers increasing year on year (with 60% of companies having more than 1000 third parties), but they also broaden a business’s potential attack surface, often have less stringent cyber security measures in place and can be seen as a softer target by cyber criminals. Despite this risk, many organizations are unaware of the number of third parties they have exposure to, the nature of the cyber security measures in place with their partners and an ability to monitor threats across their full attack surface.

Remediation-based, orchestrated, automated and customized threat intelligence is the goal. Most organizations have a few steps to go before reaching that goal. Cyber Security executives have realized that raw data is not intelligence. The discipline is not called Threat Raw Data, it’s called Threat Intelligence. Global corporate enterprise cyber security executives must move past a collective present ‘feed-based’ mindset.

At IDC, we know that data tell a story, we know how to listen to it. Join these security sessions to get insights into security and privacy technology evolution and viewpoints on top-of-mind themes for security practitioners.