Maintaining vigilance in an insecure world

The rapid-fire introduction of new technological capabilities and vulnerabilities means that CIOs must fund and deploy security operations that keep pace with a constantly changing landscape. Three of the most insidious are collaborative value chains, broadband proliferation and wireless entry points. The most important weapon a CIO has to fight these threats, though, isn't software or personnel--it's understanding the risks well enough to make rational business decisions. It's no longer good enough to simply be aware of threats or to even to be an expert on how to combat them. Today, corporate security teams must fully understand the relationships between employees and their departments, internal organizations within the enterprise, the enterprise and its customers, and the enterprise and its trading partners. With that knowledge, CIOs and CISOs can balance the need to innovate and try new technologies with an awareness of threats that can bring about catastrophic consequences.

Learn more about combating cyber-anxiety:
- read the article at Optimize

ALSO:
- read this on the march of the botnets
- this on thwarting attacks with host-based anti-malware tools
- and this on layered security