Reflections on a Dallas CISO Panel
Posted by Tom Turner in In the Industry, Q1 Labs
I attended a cyber security event in Dallas the other week put on by Fishnet (great partner by the way). The highlight of the event for me was a panel composed of local CISOs and John Kindervag from Forrester. John is a down to earth analyst (in the mode of Pescatore from Gartner) who is well worth a conversation if you are looking for clarity in the muddy world of security.
In no particular order, these are the themes or interesting quotes I took away from the panel:
- “PCI is the world’s biggest vertical market”
- The greatest motivator for executives to support security initiatives is fear of the press release. Breaches involving over 500 records in the healthcare industry require you to notify the local media
- Successful CISOs sell peer-group review to executives as a way to gain sponsorship for projects (everyone wants to know what best in class organizations are doing in their vertical)
- Visibility and monitoring is a constant challenge for all industries
- Dashboards and reports are the primary method for reporting security effectiveness to peers within the C-Suite
My last thought is that the event was well attended, very well attended – during a time when in-person events have continued to suffer/completely go out of style. This says that the security market is alive and well, there is a real thirst knowledge within the practitioner base, and that trusted 3rd parties like a Fishnet are clearly one of the first places people turn for information.
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