In this episode of The Security Podcasts featuring Chaim Mazal, Chief Security Officer at Gigamon, we discuss the challenges modern day Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) are facing with evolving regulatory requirements and compliance standards.

“I think there are a lot of tremendous organizations that are well funding the CISOs, that are putting CISOs in front of the board and having them present metrics and having them break down the individual threat landscape of the organization, and then giving them corresponding budget,” Mazal said. “But I think that these are innovative and security-minded organizations, and these make up a small percentage of the overall CISOs that exist in the wild… There are a lot of CISOs, who actually don't have members, are not part of the executive team, who maybe have a reporting structure that goes three or four levels removed from anyone within the executive team, and are running small teams that don't have budget. And unfortunately, when something goes wrong, these are the first people to be called into question.”

“So with all of the accountability and all of the government regulations currently be putting into place, I think there's going to be a strong decision made,” he continues. “Are the sleepless nights, all the unwavering dedication to the organization in reducing risk across a multitude of areas and all the stress that's associated with it, is that worth the potentially negative outcomes in the event that something goes wrong?”

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