Corporate security experts need to emerge from behind their physical cubicles and their digital firewalls to ensure that new technologies don’t create new vulnerabilities that could threaten their jobs, according to two executive-focused panels Monday at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco. Firms often fail to implement security measures amid their transition to the cloud, or when they implement the accelerated software production strategy known as DevOps, because security leaders fail to communicate with other departments, panelists said. “Because [new tools] are enabling business in a more rapid fashion, CISOs need to figure out how to turn security from ‘the business of no’ into something that enables functions,” said Kurt Hagerman, an executive adviser at the consultancy firm Coalfire. “You have to tie the value of your security program to the business. And that’s a skill a lost of CISOs today lack.” Too few companies have leaders who work together […]
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