Security News > 2020 > September > The state of security and the evolving role of CISOs in a pandemic

Identity in a remote world has taken on added importance for cybersecurity leaders speaking in a webinar on the state of security and the evolving role of CISOs at VMworld 2020.

"As security leaders, we have to make sure we don't make it a guessing game for employees, and they don't feel they have to be security experts." Sanders said his security team is building architecture and tools so that employees only need to think about whether they are doing their job.

Sanjay Poonen, chief operating officer of customer operations at VMware, said that "Security is a team sport, and it takes a village." Poonen said security can get better with event data.

Poonen said his observation is that "The security industry and for the most part, the enterprise world, have made security very complex. It is incumbent on us as we explain things to people to use analogies to make concepts consumer simple."

In response to a question about the security concerns or threats that keep them up at night, Lee said, "I didn't think CISOs were allowed to sleep."

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