Articles Tagged with ''security leadership skills''

Mike Denning has joined Verizon Enterprise Solutions as the vice president of global security. In this role, he will be responsible for overseeing Verizon’s global security business, where he will manage more than 500 employees around the world, seven global Security Operations Centers (SOCs), the Verizon Cyber Intelligence Center (VCIC), the product management and development organization and security sales operations, a Verizon press release says.

More than half of Chief Executive Officers will have a senior digital leader role in their staff by the end of 2015. However, the duties of a Digital Risk Officer would be very different than a chief information security officer (CISO). 

There will be more than 1,000 exhibits at ISC West plus another 100 or so new technologies and solutions presented in hotel suites and meeting rooms off the show floor. Robust discussion about the movement toward IP, mobility and the cloud will buzz across the show floor, as it should.

More and more, security is focusing its value proposition on a service culture. While this topic has been raised by many CSOs in recent years, the volume and frequency of the subject reached a peak recently and deserves some attention. 

 Previously in this series we have addressed leading by understanding and embracing ERM.  We also covered establishing polices, procedures and processes as the foundation of implementing the core values, operating philosophy and compliance requirements necessary to survive as a viable entity.