Why CISOs Need To Pay Attention To Geopolitical Trends
informatio age, Friday, January 31st, 2025
Keeping up with geopolitical trends isn't just another thing on the to-do list for CISOs - it's essential. Here's why
Enterprise cybersecurity teams and CISOs have a lot to worry about. Weak passwords, zero-day vulnerabilities, patch management, and many more concerns already occupy a lot of their bandwidth. Do they really need to add geopolitics to their overloaded plate?
Unfortunately, they do. There's been much discussion recently about the way that the CISO role has expanded to incorporate broader risk management. It's important to include geopolitical tensions and trends among the risks that are being assessed. Otherwise, CISOs could be taken by surprise by an attack that's more cunning and coordinated than they expected, and/or arrives from a vector that went overlooked.