CIOs: Between a Cyber-Rock and a Risk Place
Chief information officers are under more pressure than ever to accurately assess their organization’s ability to respond to both internal and external threats, reports CIO Insight. The board of directors and its audit committee are asking questions about information security readiness, and the CEO, CFO and general counsel are looking to the CIO for real-time answers.
Currently, there are two trends that are moving in opposing directions, putting CIOs between a rock and hard place.
The first trend, according to CIO Insight: Social, mobile, analytics and cloud (SMAC) provide opportunities for criminals to, at a minimum, damage a company’s brand.
And the second trend: Explosive demand for chief information security officers (CISO) has created a dramatic shortage of information security, risk and cyber-talent at all levels.