Security News > 2022 > June > Recovery and resilience: CISO insights into the 2022 cybersecurity landscape

I recently had the opportunity to meet and speak with several luminaries of the global security ecosystem: Roger Hale - Chief Security Officer; BigID, Sounil Yu - CISO and Head of Research at JupiterOne; Debbie Taylor Moore - VP and Senior Partner Global Cybersecurity at IBM Consulting; and Jay Leek, Managing Partner and Co-founder of SYN Ventures.

As the aftershocks of 2021 begin to clear, I was interested in getting CISOs' take on ensuing challenges and upcoming hurdles that require the attention of all security and business stakeholders.

As the market downturn becomes a real concern for the private sector, resilience and recovery are key for security practitioners.

"The CISO in most big organizations doesn't make any decisions anymore about your product or your solution. They have delegated that to people in their team. You're still trying to sell the CISO, yet the decision-maker is one or two levels down. The CISO can block it, is going to approve it, but they're not going to recommend it to their team. As you're marketing your solution for an organization's security program, make sure that you're targeting the right cohort, because it's not the CISO anymore."

A CISO's security stack may well be prepared to mitigate these - and upcoming - threats, but as the cybersecurity community rebuilds and reshuffles, I was interested in my colleagues' take on the buyer's perspective on the organizational security posture - are numerous point solutions preferable to one, cohesive security platform?

If the CISOs do not have a seat at the table, with a comprehensive understanding of the business shifts and how the company maintains not only the crown jewels, but also its competitive edge, they will no longer be able to ensure resilience and recovery considering these shifts and threats.

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