Kirk Hogan, Chief Innovation Officer at Iceberg Networks sits down with us to answer the top questions we hear from businesses about cyber risk and security operations.
Kirk discusses what CISO’s and security leaders are telling us they’re most challenged with, how to put cyber threats into a business context and what companies who are successfully managing cybersecurity, cyber risk and SecOps are doing differently. The following is an edited transcript of the conversation.
Q: When you’re talking to CISO’s and security leaders, what are they telling you they’re most challenged with?
Kirk: The leaders I speak with are most challenged with prioritizing time, focus, and budget on the right things. Priority setting is difficult because they treat almost everything with the same priority in isolation, so nothing gets solved. If they took a cross-functional view (non-siloed), then they could stack-rank priorities as a holistic exercise.
The other major challenge is the velocity of the challenges, or the dynamic nature of them, because priorities are always changing. If you think about the situation we’re in…