Chief information security officers (CISOs) face a number of specific challenges in 2013.
IDC has released its top 10 prediction for CISOs, as follows:
* CISOs agree with C-suite about BYOD security policies;
* CISOs focus social networking activities on customer experience, brand identity, return on value and security;
* CISOs respond to redundant, siloed GRC implementations by building WW frameworks;
* CISOs realise big data and analytics risks;
* CISOs enable, not obstruct, innovation;
* CISOs respond to demands that security becomes a “predictable operational expense”;
* CISOs move “Internet of things” from incidental to important;
* CISOs wrestle with virtual data centre security that is cloud dispersed;
* CISOs resolve problems with “tower of crypto-Babel”; and
* CISOs push back on “new normal” of inevitable breaches.
“This year, we predict CISOs will arrive at a BYOD security policy that strikes a balance between user convenience, business unit innovation, and risk management of corporate assets,” says Christian Christiansen, security products and services programme VP at IDC.