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Can cyber security leaders increase their business value in the face of digital transformation ?
Resistance to the functioning of the cyber security team due to its restrictive policies that interfere with business enablement can spell doomsday for cyber security team leaders . Biju Unni at Cloud Box Technologies advises on a more peer to peer approach , which aligns with business , enabling both sides to move forward .
Company boards and the executive management are struggling to manage the balance between the necessity to grow , invest in innovation , protect from cyber security threats , and manage risk and compliance . technology budgets that are meant to drive business results and business robustness are increasingly requiring a nod and approval from business heads for alignment and enablement .
Today ’ s cyber security leaders who are entrusted to protect the enterprise from threat actors and maintain the risk and compliance profile of the enterprise cannot execute and function in isolation . Increasingly their ability to deliver is being gauged by the success and enablement of business heads . With shareholders increasingly accepting the need to transform and business heads accepting the opportunities that lie ahead , the role of cyber security leaders is both to protect and enable the enterprise , through its digital transformation journey .
Today , the priorities for cyber security leaders are to support the changes being driven by digital transformation ; align business and security objectives ; improve the relationship of the cyber security team with rest of the enterprise , both horizontally and vertically ; retire and revamp obsolete processes that restrict users without added protection ; look at solutions to automate like robotic process automation ; among others .
However , the climate for cyber security leaders to function is becoming challenging . Gartner points out how the balance of sentiment is changing inside the enterprise .
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