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Why CxO's must embrace modern cybersecurity
practices
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Why CxO's must embrace modern cybersecurity
practices
To stay ahead in business, the digital customer
experience transformations have become mandatory.
Cutting edge digital experiences across every
device is the need of the hour for every
customer. To fulfill their digital
transformation requirements, enterprises are
leveraging technologies such as Artificial
Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and
Internet of Things (IoT) and are implementing
Design Thinking and Lean approaches. While the
digital transformations are imperative, it does
not come without a risk. As new digital processes
produce humongous data, they also generate a
dizzying array of cybersecurity
risks. Consequently, it will be a wise decision
for any enterprise embarking on the digital
transformation of their customer experience to
have cybersecurity as the integral part of their
culture. According to John A. Wheeler, Senior
Director Analyst at Gartner Research Advisory,
By proactively assessing risk appetite and the
value of the desired business outcome, Chief
Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief
Information Security Officers (CISOs) can
transform digital risk management into a
competitive advantage. Digital business has
created a new ecosystem where partners add new
business capabilities and security complexities.
For the business to move forward, there is a
need for CISOs to strike a balance between what
is needed in a security program and the risks to
undertake. There may be missed opportunities if
this balance is not meted out.
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Why CxO's must embrace modern cybersecurity
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• Address failing cybersecurity approaches
• An ineffective approach to cybersecurity often
  leads to bad investments and poor decisions.
• Few challenges that limit cybersecuritys impact
  on business as put forth by Gartner
• Societal perception is that cybersecurity is a
  technical problem, best handled by technical
  people.
• Organizations ask the wrong questions about
  cybersecurity.
• Current investments and approaches designed to
  address limitations are not productive.
• The COVID-19 disconnect is a wake-up call for
  CIOs, CISOs, and IT executives about the
  critical need to address cybersecurity as a
  business decision in a business context.
• Create a business context around cybersecurity
• Identify the business context of your
  organization to create a business context around
  cybersecurity. While every organization has costs
  and budgets, sources of customers and revenue,
  and desired outcomes and supporting business
  processes, each of these components comes with
  key technology dependencies.
• Identify how technology maps back to them and
  understand the organizations business outcomes
  and most important processes. Shift towards an
  outcome-driven approach to cybersecurity using
  the business context as guide.

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Why CxO's must embrace modern cybersecurity
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