The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected CISOs and other security and risk management leaders worldwide. Now, these leaders are increasingly developing and implementing security projects designed to simultaneously minimize risk and support remote workers.
Gartner cited the following security projects as top 2020-2021 priorities for security and risk management leaders:
1. Remote Workforce Security
Risk management and security leaders must understand business requirements and how end-users and groups access data and applications. Then, they can determine if access levels are correct and if any security measures are inadvertently impeding employees’ ability to get work done remotely.
2. Risk-Based Vulnerability Management
Many security vulnerabilities can affect global organizations, and risk management and security leaders should focus on exploitable vulnerabilities and use threat intelligence to understand organizational risks.
3. Extended Detection and Response (XDR)
With XDR, risk management and security leaders can leverage multiple security products via a single solution to understand security issues and find ways to improve…
