Talking on the changing role of the CISO and the security department internally at the Cloudsec conference in London, Leah MacMillan, SVP global marketing at Trend Micro, asked the panel if the role of the CISO was changing?
Carmina Lees, financial services managing director, Middle East & Africa at Accenture, referred to an instance where devices were compromised by a 15-year-old attacker and the CISO was called in at the weekend to deal with it “and you could hear the sheer panic and stress in her voice on how big it was.”
Martin Borrett, IBM distinguished engineer, and CTO of IBM Security Europe, said that as 2017 was “a major year for malware” he had to spend several weekends working on client sites to help them recover from instances, “and we learned a lot about patching and architectures.”
Looking at the changing role of the CISO, Lees said that CISOs are often tasked with being multi-skilled to be able to keep up with threats and present internally to the board, while Borrett said that “some are figureheads and public symbols, some are fall guys and [some in the] space between.”
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