Welcome to the 2017 Security 500 report with the top 10 trends that Security 500 survey respondents have identified as risks to their enterprise’s reputation and brand.
This year’s Security 500 report offers 10 security risks to your enterprise’s reputation, as ranked by you in your Security 500 survey responses, in addition to how one CSO is mitigating them in his enterprise.
Sydney, Australia, and Copenhagen, Denmark claimed the top two spots as the world’s most reputable cities in the Reputation Institute’s 2017 City RepTrak®.
Hacktivists have begun deploying much more organized, sophisticated attacks. These are much less likely to be forgotten by customers, as they are aimed at breaching a company’s security and stealing the data most likely to damage the reputation and credibility of the enterprise or, even worse, air customers’ dirty laundry.
As part of its arsenal of battlefield tactics, the Islamic State (ISIS) has added cyber-attacks to its list. By hacking into news organizations throughout the world, the terrorist organization has launched incredibly disruptive attacks in France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Iran, as attempts to eliminate the freedom of the press and manipulate the views shared by the media.
It's cliché but true: One bad apple gives the whole bunch a bad name. When hiring new officers for private security, one untrained security officer can ruin both your company's brand and the reputation of the industry as a whole.
Has investigative reporting turned against the security officer? According to Mark Fidelman, biases embedded in news reports can give your security team an undeserved bad reputation.