NIST plays NICE with industry partners to grow cybersecurity workforce

In the first update to its strategic plan since 2016, the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education seeks new ways to grow the cybersecurity workforce.

By Katie Malone • Oct. 29, 2020

Security accounts for just 5.7% of IT spend: Gartner

The range of IT security spending is between 1.7% to 11.5% of IT budgets, but "this is not necessarily good or bad," said Gartner's Tom Scholtz.

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 28, 2020

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Corporate stakeholders want to better understand the risk calculus of their technology stacks, answering the lingering question: Are we a target? 

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Why is the CIO-CISO dynamic strained?

In an enterprise where every executive has competing priorities in deadlines, money and personnel, some CISOs and CIOs fight for equal shares. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 27, 2020

5 cybersecurity and threat trends CISOs must watch

Attacks are all but guaranteed, threats are evolving and a digital realm is targeting the physical. What's keeping CISOs up at night? Everything. 

By Naomi Eide • Oct. 26, 2020

4 roles security organizations will see in 2021

Though "no two security leaders perform the same task," Gartner expects the cybersecurity function to add leaders who can address risk and digital ecosystems.

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 22, 2020

Slack picks Reddit alum as chief security officer

The company named its first CSO Geoff Belknap in 2016, but Larkin Ryder has been serving as Slack's interim CSO since Belknap departed in 2019. 

By Samantha Schwartz • Oct. 1, 2020

6 types of CISO and the companies they thrive in

Jeff Pollard, VP and principal analyst at Forrester, wants CISOs to discover the type of leader they are — transformational, tactical, steady — and run with it.

By Samantha Schwartz • Sept. 22, 2020

Why anti-phishing exercises could 'alienate' employees in crisis

Between maintaining business continuity and preserving employee well-being, CISOs had to decide if a pandemic was an appropriate time to test employee cybersecurity awareness.

By Samantha Schwartz • July 16, 2020

Goldman hires CISO away from Morgan Stanley

Matthew Chung joins the bank in a role vacated in May when Andy Ozment moved to Capital One. Goldman's interim CISO, Phil Venables, will leave the bank at the end of the year.

By Dan Ennis • Updated Oct. 2, 2020

'Golden bullet' clauses protect CISOs after a breach

A financial cushion will not shield an executive from public scrutiny, but it can alleviate the burden of blame.

By Samantha Schwartz • Nov. 18, 2019