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TikTok, the controversial and wildly popular social video app maker, announced on Thursday that Roland Cloutier will join the company as Chief Information Security Officer. Cloutier joins TikTok from ADP where he served as SVP and Chief Security Officer, overseeing the company's cyber, information protection, risk, workforce protection, crisis management, and investigative security operations worldwide.
What is the impact on the individuals and their enterprises? And what should be done to alleviate this stress? Stuart Reed of Nominet analyzes this latest CISO Stress report. How senior management can take the lead on relieving CISO stress.
The attacks on Ukraine over the last five years are a test case for how a country's infrastructure can be disrupted and paralyzed, and how companies' OT networks can be severely impacted. While OT networks were not the primary target, just the accidental spill-over of NotPetya from IT to OT networks, was a wake-up call.
He has been at Infosys for four years as the chief information security officer. The future is going to be about cyber resilience, and CISOs need to lead the charge to recalibrate how security teams and entire companies think about security.
What role can technology now play in improving insider threat detection and response? Three CISOs share their insights. Joining ISMG's Tom Field to discuss insider threat are: Dawn Cappelli, vice president of global security and CISO of Rockwell Automation; Sujeet Bambawale, CISO of 7-Eleven; Solomon Adote, chief security officer of the state of Delaware; and Tony Pepper, CEO and co-founder of Egress Software Technologies.
The speed and complexity of software development is rapidly increasing. Development teams have little to no time to ensure these applications are secure, even while the biggest and most severe data breaches that have affected both the public and private sectors all operate at the application layer.
Reducing security complexity remains one of the toughest challenges facing CISOs, driven by the non-stop increase in threats, says Jeff Reed of Cisco. While many organizations are reducing the number of tools they use, creating a sustainable solution to the complexity problem also requires vendors to ensure their tools are increasingly interoperable and facilitate improved visibility as well as automation, he says.
Security leaders need to connect their work to broader business goals and create a culture of learning to attract talent. Chief information security officers need to focus on communication, collaboration and culture in 2020 to improve cybersecurity and boost the profile of the security team as well.
Security leaders can no longer adopt the role of enforcer, but rather need to pivot to a new role: the enabler. Security leaders must now be able to transform their security practices in lockstep with all the other changes wrought by business-wide digital transformation.
Veeam Software, the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, announced that Gil Vega has been appointed Chief Information Security Officer. Vega, whose previous experience includes serving as Managing Director and CISO at CME Group and as the Associate Chief Information Officer & CISO for the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement in Washington, DC, will be responsible for establishing and maintaining Veeam's vision and strategy to ensure its information assets and solutions are adequately protected, and will be pivotal in driving strategies to help customers protect their critical data across multiple environments and ensure regulatory compliance.