Risk can mean different things to different people across the business
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Matt Middleton-Leal, Qualys
Context is essential to making good decisions. Telling you that there are 100 security issues in your organisation is alarming but unhelpful; telling you that there are 99 issues that are unlikely to be problems and one really big issue that needs immediate attention is far more helpful to you, and to the other teams that you might have to work with. The challenge here is that companies have so much data available to them, making it hard to see where the real threats are.
At the same time, you are under more pressure to innovate. This impetus to implement new projects or get ahead of competitors overcomes the risks that might come up. According to research by LevelBlue , 74% of global respondents confirmed that the opportunity of computing innovation outweighs the corresponding increase in cybersecurity risk. So how can we overcome this problem around risk, while still supporting the…
