Security News > 2020 > October > 5 strategies for CISOs during a time of rapid business transformation
A survey of business leaders by PwC finds the pandemic is causing rapid changes in the roles CISOs play, and offers five tips for ensuring that security remains stable as we enter a new normal.
Ninety-six percent of respondents said they're adjusting their cybersecurity plans due to COVID-19, and the biggest evolution in security strategies seems to be baking security and privacy into every business decision.
Other security strategies that CISOs said they're considering are new processes for budgeting, more granular quantification of risks, increasing interactions between CISOs and CEOs/boards, and increasing resilience testing for low-likelihood, but high-impact, events.
As mentioned above, CISOs are being forced to adapt to fill multiple roles due to rapid COVID-19-related changes, and while that puts pressure on CISOs now, PwC said it's essential for the role to change to fit a new model of security: One of digital trust.
"It's a critical juncture for cybersecurity and CISOs," the report said, adding that the current reset of the CISO role "Determines whether CISOs may grow to become stewards of digital trust, able to lead their organizations securely into the new era with strategies to protect business value and to create it."