As frustrating as it can be for IT leaders and CISOs to struggle with a lack of respect from a CEO and the rest of the C-suite, in many ways they need to look in the mirror to place blame for that situation. As we've discussed in the past here at Business Insights, a lot of the respect issue comes down to ineffective communication.
Back to work, people! It's time for CISOs to dust the holiday cookie crumbs from their lips and stop rubbernecking the proverbial car crash that was the Sony incident. As 2015 kicks off, it’s the perfect time to reevaluate plans and priorities, and maybe even engage in a bit of wishful thinking. As security and risk management professionals start the year, the following items are most likely to hit their wish list for the coming 12 months.
Last year's non-stop parade of breaches showed CEOs and boards how detrimental a lack in security investment can really be to an enterprise's health, let alone their own job security. After all, last year saw the dismissal of Target's CEO following that company's disastrous breach—one of the first very big public firings of a chief executive in the wake of a security incident. And just last month Sony Picture's disastrous hack and subsequent release of sensitive emails to and from executives showed the personal consequences to executives when enterprises don't invest in security—for example, the incident greatly tarnished the personal reputation of studio co-chair Amy Pascal.
