Enterprise-Level Security Trends: 5 Things to Know As a CEO
The CEO of an enterprise navigating the digital landscape can feel like embarking on a thrilling yet perilous expedition. It promises growth and innovation but is tempered by the looming specter of cyber threats partly because enterprise-level security breaches are often.
Cybercriminals keep developing new ways to breach the digital defenses of even the most well-fortified organizations. Therefore, CEOs intending to protect the company's valuable assets must remain ahead of the curve in understanding cybersecurity developments.
A CEO can formulate security policies, adopt the right security tools, implement cloud security posture management, and even adopt security trends.
In this article, we'll explain on five key enterprise-level security trends every CEO must know to successfully chart a course through the unpredictable waters of the cyber world…
The Cyber Hut Comment: A quick fire top 5 set of security tips from LoginRadius that are aimed at the c-level executive. They start off with securing cyber assets, which sounds quite generic. They consider the three main aspects of this to be compliance (which is typically an audit capability, to fulfil legal), followed by a scope exercise (which is always a useful exercise in helping to understand the as-is gap which can help define plans and spending) before taking a look at having a cyber vision. This latter part should really form part of the security policy if leveraging things like ISO27001/2 which can in turn help drive lower level procedures and behaviours.
Number 2 in their list, is the now table-stakes mention of AI and how it can be used to detect data breaches. The “detect” aspect here typically warrants the use of automation - either structured or unstructured machine learning or more mature AI approaches. The net-net, is that detection technology is based on lots of data - activity, usage, identity, network and so on - so applying some sort of automation is critical to help reduce the noise and focus effort on the true exceptions.
Three on their list is the focus on awareness and c-level committees. The idea is to help develop a cyber “culture” which is company wide and brings together the policy aspect with gradual changes in user behaviour. Another angle to this awareness approach they bring up, is having a strong incident response process - which also requires good communications management, both for internal and external stakeholders.
Step 4, see’s LoginRadius bring in the CIAM aspect - by arguing that organisations need to be managing the consumer/customer angle better, with commercial software that is secure and scalable. The assumption is that homegrown CIAM solutions are not only costly to maintain, they are difficult to expand and extend and are likely to be less-secure than specialist commercial software.
The article concludes by taking a look at PEC - privacy enabled computing. An growing need in the CIAM space, where the processing of PII (personal identifiable information) is often common. PEC can allow the integration of data processing by potentially un-trusted third parties which are likely within a complex supply chain.