How Cyber Risks Have Become Business Risks
Fortinet News, Thursday, July 25th, 2024
Cyber risk is business risk. Anything that threatens IT threatens the company. We have become extremely dependent upon our digital assets. As a result, business leaders need to realize the magnitude of the change.
The essence of what visionaries have shared with me in the last couple of months shows how much cybersecurity is now a permanent topic of discussion among chief information security officers (CISOs) and their corporate leadership.
Assessing Cyber Risks
Perhaps the most crucial role of the CISO is to rank cyber risks by order of actual impact. This requires an equal understanding of business and technology, as well as a sense of how objects that were never designed to be secure behave under attack. It is not an easy task, and not only for technological reasons.