The Complicated Relationship Between CIOs and CSOs

By Jack Rosenberger In the wake of the news that Target’s profit fell more than 40 percent during the fourth quarter of 2013, due in large part to a data breach that affected up to 110 million customers, CIO Insight interviewed Eric Cole, a SANS Institute Faculty Fellow and the head of SANS’s Cyber Defense…

The Complicated Relationship Between CIOs and CSOs

How can CIOs and CSOs work together better? What has made CIO-CSO relationships work in situations you’ve observed? In order for the CIO and CSO to have an effective working relationship, they must have clear boundaries of responsibility. Typically what works best is for the CSO to define the proper level of security, the CIO…

Worldwide Spend for IT Security Continues to Increase

According to the 7th annual Global State of Information Security Survey 2010, released today, six out of ten respondents (63%) expect security spending to either increase or stay the same in spite of the worst economic downturn in decades―or perhaps because of it. The study, the largest of its kind, is conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)…