STRATFORD, Ont. — Business leaders are finally getting the importance cyber security, but that doesn’t mean working with management is any easier for infosec pros, says a Gartner consultant.
Greg Loos, an Ottawa-based Gartner executive partner told a conference of municipal infosec workers that senior business executives are now aware that cyber security has a significant impact on the ability to achieve business goals and protect corporate reputation.
But, he added, “security and risk managers, you now have to step up your game and create security programs that can connect and interact with business if you’re going to take advantage of this change in perception.”
According to a Gartner survey of 220 non-IT executives, 71 per cent said they have a fear of technology risk in cyber security that is materially impacting innovation in their organization. “So part of the challenge for all of you is to turn that fear into action.”
Until four months ago Loos was a major general in the Canadian Armed Forces who was the chief of staff of the information management group and head of the new Cyber Force, was the final keynote speaker here at last week’s annual cyber…
