The techUK podcast: The Role of the CISO in a Digitally Transformed Organisation
In December 2021, techUK launched The Role of the CISO in a Digitally Transformed Organisation report, which looks at what CISOs should be doing to help ensure cyber security is recognised as a business enabler and a critical ingredient in helping their organisation to deliver on its digitalisation journey.
In this episode of the techUK podcast, we explore the topic further with our three expert guests – Paul D'Cruz, Security Solutions Leader at Microsoft UK, Jean-Christophe Gaillard, Managing Director of Corix Partners and Martin Borrett, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Technical Director at IBM Security. We also talk more about the problematic balancing act of the CISO function and take a closer look at some of the recommendations offered to tech company CISOs in the report.
The 7 recommendations made in The Role of the CISO in a Digitally Transformed Organisation are:
Recommendation 1: The CISO must help the Board to recognise cyber security as a business enabler, and a critical ingredient in helping the organisation to deliver on its digitalisation journey.
Recommendation 2: The CISO should look beyond the purely technical and focus on business risk management. The CISO must have, and embrace, wider business skills and knowledge to drive change across all business functions.
Recommendation 3: The CISO must be prepared for all types of crises: identify the principles that will guide you in decision-making – and test them.
Recommendation 4: The CISO should build a digital empathy system: use telemetry data from trends to understand how people are working in the system to improve experience and reduce risk.
Recommendation 5: Supercharge the human firewall: the CISO should sharpen security hygiene to encourage people to adopt digitally safe behaviours and be on their guard against cyber threats.
Recommendation 6: The CISO should build the case for investment in appropriate threat intelligence so that they are equipped to help their leadership teams understand the business problem in context and to support improved decision-making.
Recommendation 7: Diversity is a strength to be actively sought within the security team (and beyond). The CISO should help to hold their organisation to account on diversity and initiate conversations that provoke action to ensure a team that makes better decisions.
Listen now to hear from three of the key contributors to this important techUK report.
Download the full The Role of the CISO in a Digitally Transformed Organisation report here.
Dan Patefield
Dan Patefield
Dan leads the techUK Cyber Security programme, having originally joined techUK in August 2017 as a Programme Manager working across the Cyber and Defence programmes. He is responsible for managing techUK's work across the cyber security eco-system, bringing industry together with key stakeholders across the public and private sectors. Dan also provides the industry secretariat for the Cyber Growth Partnership, the industry and Governmnet conduit for supporting growth across the sector. A key focus of his work is to strengthen the public-private partnership across cyber security to support further development of UK cyber security policy.
Before joining techUK he worked as Forum Lead for the Westminster eForum. In this role he had a focus on the technology and telecoms space, on issues ranging from Broadband and Mobile Infrastructure, the Internet of Things, Cyber Security, Data and diversity in tech. Dan has a BA in History from the University of Liverpool.
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Jill Broom
Jill Broom
Jill is techUK’s Programme Manager for Cyber Security, working across the cyber eco-system to bring industry together with key stakeholders across the public and private sectors.
Prior to focusing in on techUK's cyber security work, Jill was also part of techUK's Central Government programme team, representing the supplier community of technology products and services to Whitehall departments.
Before joining techUK, Jill worked as a Senior Caseworker for an MP, advocating for local communities, businesses and individuals, so she is particularly committed to techUK’s vision of harnessing the power of technology to improve people’s lives. Jill is also an experienced editorial professional and has delivered copyediting and writing services for public-body and SME clients as well as publishers.
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- @honeybroom
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- www.techuk.org
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- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jill-broom-19aa824