To say the past 18 months have been challenging for the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is something of an understatement. What started as a need to rapidly deploy and secure mass remote environments quickly evolved to mean supporting these environments in the long-term, not just for the company, but for and against the risks of the broader connected ecosystem.
At the same time, and at least partly as a result, this increasingly vast digital ecosystem faced a barrage of cyberattacks, both old and new, according to a study conducted by Proofpoint.