There was a time when 28 percent of organizations made no presentations to their corporate boards about security, and nearly one in three corporate boards had no involvement in cybersecurity threats.
There are significant opportunities for security and risk executives to be influenced as well as to be the ones that are acting as the ones that are influencing others.
Over the past few years, women have represented approximately 10 percent of the information security workforce, but analysis from two recent (ISC) information security workforce surveys shows that women are quickly converging on men in terms of academic focus, computer science and engineering, and, as a gender, have a higher concentration of advanced degrees.
The so-called “Islamic State” (IS) that has swept into power in parts of Syria and Iraq presents an imminent danger to the global community, with its capacity as an effective, ideologically motivated and bloodthirsty fighting force, coupled with its expanding territorial reach, on the ground and online.