Articles Tagged with ''CISO''

 While cyber insurance adoption is on the rise, only 26 percent of companies have policies today, according to a study on data breach preparedness from Experian and the Ponemon Institute. 

Twenty-eight percent of respondents say their CISO has made cybersecurity decisions that have led to negative effects on the enterprise’s financial health, including lost business, decreased productivity or impaired service levels.

Former GE, GM information security leader Brad Maiorino will join Target Corp. as senior vice president and chief information security officer (CISO).

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cybersecurity framework is now available, so how can CSOs and CISOs use it to better frame their cyber efforts and prove their case to the C-Suite?

The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) not only protects IT systems with special hardware, software and secure business processes, but he or she also creates, implements and communicates the organization’s digital information security policies and procedures.

Cyber security salaries are higher than you might expect – Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) earn an average base salary equivalent to the compensation of other C-level executives for 50 percent of survey respondents in the 2013 Salary Benchmark Report. 

Right now, the bad guys are winning." It’s a bleak statement from Dave Frymier, the CISO for Unisys Corp., but one that many enterprise security executives need to hear.

Are you (and your enterprise) struggling to keep up with the pace of today’s cyber security challenges? You aren’t alone, but you aren’t without resources. 

A new Ponemon survey shows that many risk management leaders remain skeptical over the value of cyber insurance, but 30 percent of those companies who have it have already submitted a claim.