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Hence the popularity of Virtual Chief Information Security Officer services. Most service providers only offer a portion of overall CISO duties.

As their hybrid and multicloud environments become more complex, and teams continue to rely on manual processes that make it easier for vulnerabilities to slip into production environments, CISOs find it increasingly difficult to keep their software secure, according to Dynatrace. The continued use of siloed tools for development, delivery, and security tasks is hindering the maturity of DevSecOps adoption.

Security compliance often feels like the ever-present task that looms over every angle of your role as Chief Information Security Officer. Regardless of the hours spent managing it, something can always slip through the cracks.

A study conducted among CISOs worldwide from various industries sheds light on their strategies amid a challenging threat environment, identifies obstacles from business functions, and highlights their requirements for achieving success. "Our research shows CISOs are motivated by a mission to protect. Yet, CISOs tell us they feel unsupported, unheard, and invisible," said Bryan Palma, CEO of Trellix.

The top challenges when implementing an effective cyber/IT risk management program include an increase in the quantity and severity of cyber threats, a lack of funding and a lack of staffing/cyber risk talent. Given the financial and reputational consequences of cyberattacks, corporate board rooms are putting pressure on CISOs to identify and mitigate cyber/IT risk.

Due to the increasing importance of multi-cloud and the intricate nature of cloud infrastructure, obtaining a comprehensive understanding of the various cloud workloads operating within your system, and ensuring their security, can be challenging. In this Help Net Security video, Kaus Phaltankar, CEO at Caveonix discusses how in today's complex multi-cloud landscape, the role of CISOs is more crucial than ever.

Data security is becoming increasingly complex and the datasets that require securing are growing rapidly. Rubrik internal data revealed that on average, the growth of data secured in 2022 was 25%. 56% of organizations currently employ at least one zero trust initiative.

The CISO role is currently fraught with novel challenges and escalating workloads. This includes increased paperwork and time spent on risk assessments, which have surged from two to thirty hours per assessment.

The impact of the hybrid workforce on security posture, as well as the risks introduced by this way of working, are posing concerns for CISOs and driving them to develop new strategies for hybrid work security, according to Red Access. The role of hybrid/remote work, and insecure browsing Hybrid work is here to stay.

Giorgos highlights the company's customizable technology, which can be tailored to meet the unique needs of different organizations, as well as the security measures that Elemendar takes to protect the data processed by their AI technology. That's because, to use CTI as structured, machine-readable data in a defensive system, you need to translate it from a human-readable form into a machine-readable one: the greatest benefit from cyber threat intelligence comes with higher-level information that is expressed in human-readable forms, because a human wrote it in the first place.