Put yourself in the shoes of a CIO for a moment, and you will realize how difficult their jobs are. From ever-growing cybersecurity threats to ensuring compliance, overcoming resistance to change, scaling with rigid IT infrastructure, managing risks, and convincing board members to increase the cybersecurity budget, CIOs have their work cut out for them.<\/p>\n
Most CIOs look at their responsibilities in the light of the NIST cybersecurity framework<\/a><\/u>. That is why their focus is on the five functions of NIST. As a result, they are diverting all their energies towards detecting and responding to endpoint security<\/a><\/u> threats. The problem with this approach is that cybersecurity is not confined to the NIST framework or endpoint security. It is an ever-evolving industry where things change quickly. In order to cope with emerging cybersecurity challenges, CIOs need to change their priorities and approach.<\/p>\n In this article, you will learn about five things that CIOs must prioritize when creating a cybersecurity budget for 2020.<\/p>\n In the age of cloud computing, hackers are no longer required to break into your network and hack laterally. All they need to do is steal login credentials and access the account to compromise the device. Once they successfully do that, they are only one hop away from accessing privileged data stored in the cloud. Bret Arsenault, CISO of Microsoft, summed it up brilliantly when he said, \u201cHackers don\u2019t break in, they log in<\/strong>.\u201d That is why Microsoft is focusing on identity management to bolster the security perimeter, and you should too.<\/p>\n Your cybersecurity team needs to have visibility into who is accessing your network. Research is underway to standardize more secure authentication methods such as facial recognition, iris scanning, and fingerprint scanning, but there is still a long way to go before these technologies can be widely adopted for authentication. Despite its challenges, CIOs will continue to invest in identity and access management systems for secure authentication management.<\/p>\n Popular social engineering attacks, such as phishing<\/a><\/u> and spear-phishing<\/a><\/u> attacks, take advantage of a lack of employee awareness and training. You can easily save your employees from these social engineering attacks<\/a><\/u> by investing in cybersecurity training and raising awareness among your employees. The more aware your employees are, the harder it is for hackers to trick them.<\/p>\n Test the knowledge of your employees after a training program by launching mock social engineering attacks. By increasing the cybersecurity awareness of your employees, they can become your biggest asset instead of a liability. They can also help you identify suspicious behavior, raise a red flag<\/a>,<\/u> and report it to the concerned department before it is too late. Reinforce training by recognizing \u201csecurity champions\u201d each quarter, consider premium glass trophy awards<\/a> to celebrate top performers, and sustain a culture of vigilance.<\/p>\n With more and more businesses migrating to the cloud, some businesses are still reluctant to move their critical data to the cloud due to privacy and security concerns. If your business is one of them, then you might still be storing data on the best dedicated servers<\/a> or take the hybrid approach. You should follow cloud security best practices<\/a><\/u> to keep your data safe in the cloud.<\/p>\n Whether you have migrated all your data to the cloud, moved some of the data to the cloud, or not, it is imperative to protect your critical digital assets. By limiting role-based access, zero trusts can make sure that only authorized users can access the data.<\/p>\n Here are some of the other technologies that you can use to safeguard your digital assets.<\/p>\n1. Identity and Access Management<\/h2>\n
2. Employee Education and Training<\/h2>\n
3. Asset Protection<\/h2>\n