{"id":29137,"date":"2019-11-11T15:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T20:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?post_type=emagazine&p=29137"},"modified":"2021-07-19T04:49:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T08:49:14","slug":"ciso-survey-2019","status":"publish","type":"emagazine","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/secure-futures-magazine\/ciso-survey-2019\/29137\/","title":{"rendered":"How is the role and world of the CISO changing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As businesses become increasingly digital, and our world more inter-connected, the cybersecurity risks to your business are increasing. Now more than ever before, it\u2019s important to have a cyber-strategy in place, something that chief information security officers (CISOs) know all about.<\/p>\n

But instead of talking about why hiring the right security professionals to look after your businesses data is important, a new survey asks 305 of these professionals from around the world. We present Cybersecurity Through the CISO\u2019s Eyes: Perspectives on a Role report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cybersecurity is evolving into strategic risk management<\/h2>\n

This survey, conducted by 451 Research and commissioned by Kaspersky, has insights that could help protect your business. And plenty of them. Like the changing nature of a CISOs function, with 70 percent saying that risk management is now a key part of their role, emphasising the importance of planning against attacks. And there\u2019s more findings:
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\nThere are indicators about where the industry is heading and the concerns of security professionals. 70 percent of those surveyed said it was harder to hire skilled cyber-personnel, which feeds in to a growing trend about why it\u2019s important to grow talent from within the enterprise.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not their only concern. One in two people survey said that the growth and severity of attacks put the most pressure on them. The top threats identified range from the rapid evolution of cloud-native technologies to an explosion of \u2018smart\u2019 devices enabled by the internet of things (IoT). Here\u2019s some of the report\u2019s highlights:<\/p>\n