2.2Incidents, Schmincidents

DOI: 10.1201/9781003302759-5

One topic comes up regularly these days: security incidents and breaches. Yes, the ghosts that keep us up at night. The reason we keep insisting that the CISO’s job is to “protect the company.”

Hackers.

Ransomware.

You know, the scary stuff.

That you can buy a lot of books on how to set up a cyber infrastructure that will help prevent such an event from occurring, even if you follow all of their advice, should do nothing to alleviate your concerns.

Let me take this a step further: I have yet to meet a single person in security or otherwise that, after implementing all the best cyber practices and spending even many millions on software tools, truly sleeps well at night in the comfort ...

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