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CISOs at small to midsize businesses with teams of five employees or fewer were surveyed to better understand how work-related stress is impacting CISOs - from their ability to do their job and lead their team to how it's affecting their own professional outlook and personal life. According to the report, 94% of CISOs reported being stressed at work, with 65% confiding that work-stress levels compromised their ability to protect their organizations.
94% of CISOs report being stressed at work, with 65% admitting work-related stress issues are compromising their ability to protect their organization, according to Cynet. According to the report, 74% say they are losing team members because of work-related stress issues, with 47% of these CISOs having more than one team member exit their role over the last 12 months.
CISOs are concerned about the rise of ransomware - not only of the proliferation of attacks but also of their sophistication: "The storage and backup environments are now under attack, as the attackers realize that this is the single biggest determining factor to show if the company will pay the ransom," says George Eapen, Group CIO at Petrofac,. Immutable storage is the simplest way to protect backup data.
TikTok and Lensa AI have sparked worldwide conversations on the future of social media and consumer data privacy. In this Help Net Security video, Rick McElroy, Principal Security Strategist at VMware, offers a perspective on these trends, including tips on how consumers and organizations can bolster their security practices to keep up with evolving technologies.
Compliance services are emerging as one of the hottest areas of cybersecurity. As large businesses adopt cybersecurity and compliance frameworks and agree to certain standards, they impose similar demands on their suppliers.
The research shows the CISO seat to be relatively industry-agnostic-with 84% of CISOs having a career history of working across multiple sectors-with today's CISOs expected to bring more breadth of leadership to their role as they move away from being technical experts. CISO profiles have changed dramatically-36% of CISOs analyzed with a graduate degree received a higher degree in business administration or management.
Researchers identified the top seven success factors that boost enterprise security resilience, focusing on cultural, environmental, and solution-based factors that businesses leverage to achieve security. Resilience has emerged as a top priority as 62 percent of organizations surveyed said they had experienced a security event that impacted business in the past two years.
When organizations are armed with intelligence that's timely, relevant, and actionable, they can bolster their own cyber defense measures and even prevent a ransomware attack from occurring in the first place. One of the most effective ways to stop a ransomware attack is to deny them access in the first place; without access, there is no attack.
BlueFort Security has announced the results of its 2022 CISO survey, which revealed that while CISOs are still experiencing challenges around visibility, intelligence and control, 47% are proactively focused on digital transformation and cloud migration. While 37% of CISOs still have their cybersecurity budget defined as a subset of their organization's general IT budget, 58% of CISOs expect world events to cause an increase in their cybersecurity budget over the next budget cycle.
In this Help Net Security video, Frank Kim, CISO-in-Residence at YL Ventures, discusses the growing role of CISOs in investment firms and how their role as advisors helps drive cybersecurity startups. Frank works closely with cybersecurity startup founders on ideation, product-market-fit, and value realization, on an in-house and regular basis.