Today’s chief information officers (CIOs) face a daunting challenge: balancing the innovative work of digital transformation with the requirement to protect their organization from sophisticated and potentially damaging cyberattacks. The current cybersecurity threat environment is exerting a lot of pressure on CIOs to manage risk by countering cyber threats with a combination of workforce skills and a portfolio of cybersecurity tools.
Responsible for overseeing all information technology in an organization, CIOs need to provide the IT guidance and resources an organization needs for supporting its mission and hitting its financial goals. Increasingly, that work involves digital transformation.
This eBook covers the challenges CIOs face in supporting innovation and IT security at the same time. It also explains some defense strategies that CIOs can adopt to protect the attack surface of their modern, cloud-first IT environments.