Intentional Choices For Security Teams and Digital Transformation

Imagine any organization that is beginning or is in the middle of their digital transformation. The organization might even be yours. Excitement is in the air about new technologies such as the Cloud and mobile applications. At the same time, there are a slew of legacy applications and endpoints that aren’t part of the new exciting conversation. 

An organization’s cybersecurity team has no choice but to transform as well. They’ll have actually engage and hold conversations about securing both new and old technologies.  If the team has historically been the “Department of No”, they’ll need to begin to find ways to safely enable “yes”. Perhaps even make no the answer of last resort.  If not, unless they support a highly regulated industry, they’ll be left behind in terms of headcount, funding, and reach. 

You have two choices in terms what you want your org to be. You can transform to an org that adds value to the new company direction or remain the one that provides the same answer as always. 

Which do you think that the CEO or Board would prefer to fully resource? 

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