A security leader outlines four essentials: understand standards deeply rather than just comply, appoint a CISO with direct access to leadership, balance security with business needs, and continuously assess which risks you can actually afford to close.
What are some of the key elements that you see to maintaining a secure network and really having a top cybersecurity approach?
You know, in terms of advice, so I lead the security governance and standards, and I think a disciplined approach to ensuring that you understand security standards and how you are meeting those standards, not just from a compliance or regulatory model, but really understanding how you deliver on security is one of the first things. And, you know, you have to have someone who I think is, is on, you know, in the lead, whether it's a chief information security officer or someone on your staff who, who really owns that security and has a direct line to, you know, company leadership because you want that person to push and to do the right thing. It can't be security at the expense of business. It has to be a balance of both. And there are sometimes often, you know, decisions that have to be made and an understanding of the risk, you know, the perfect security solution may not be feasible from a financial or business perspective. So understanding that gap and the risk there, I think, for an informed view on security risk, I think is important.
