The Resilient CISO: Future-Proofing Your Role Using the Human Factor - Immersive

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Overview

In this CISO Inspired Summit masterclass, Immersive looks at how the CISO role will continue to evolve, why security leaders need to integrate further with the business and why, even with the advent of AI, focusing on people is the key to success.

Citing Gartner's view that the 'chief protection officer' who builds walls will become obsolete within five to six years, the session explains how CISOs can move into a resilience role, partnering with business continuity, disaster recovery and third-party risk teams, and how to assess, build and measure a security culture that can absorb and recover from disruption.

Key takeaways

  • The CISO's mandate is shifting from defending and containing towards enabling the business to recover quickly, on the assumption that breaches will happen.
  • CISOs are increasingly held accountable for supply chain disruption, however many layers deep it goes.
  • Only 41% of organisations include non-technical roles such as business service owners, legal and compliance in their exercising programmes.
  • Most incidents don't fail for lack of technology but for lack of practice, coordination and trust between teams.
  • AI can stop the vast majority of identity attacks, but attackers are also using it to scale social engineering, so the human element remains critical.

Watch the full session on YouTube: The Resilient CISO: Future-Proofing Your Role Using the Human Factor - Immersive

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