Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 33 | Page 36

EDITOR’S QUESTION For some organisations, building a brand- new security operations model won’t work – many lack the skills and resources to start from scratch. What should they do instead? We believe they should work with security vendor partners that deliver behavioural analytics capabilities that leverage Machine Learning, automate manual processes and natively integrate security capabilities into a single security platform. In this way, organisations can improve detection and response times while lessening the burden on overworked security departments. Cyber-readiness, through best practices and innovative technology that solves real problems, together with open lines of communication across technical and business teams, is the key to effective prevention, detection and response. If you recall the quote from Harvard Business Review, even those that spend hundreds of millions of dollars on state-of-the-art technology aren’t necessarily best placed to defend their businesses from the ever- growing community of cyberadversaries. As aforementioned, in order to ease this process, CISOs should form partnerships with leading security vendors that are committed to technology integration, advanced analytics capabilities and process automation on their own. The only efficient way to keep up with and guard against cybersecurity threats is to employ automation. In today’s digital age, cookie-cutter simulations and tabletop exercises will not deliver the value necessary for effective cyber-readiness. There’s no substitute for real-world experience. www.intelligentcio.com