Data Breach No Longer An IT Issue, It's A Business Issue – Firstpost

John Kendall, Director, National Security Program, Unisys APAC reveals challenges that CISOs face while maintaining a secure IT infrastructure and shares pointers on how to deal with them. In conversation with Biztech2.com, John Kendall, Director, National Security Program, Unisys APAC reveals some critical challenges that stand in the CISO’s way and shares pointers on how to deal with them. The insider threat can be unintentional, e.g., such as a lost USB drive with corporate financial data, a lost or stolen mobile device with access to corporate systems or emails, or an employee fooled into disclosing data in response to the increasingly sophisticated socially engineered spear-phishing scams, etc. Organisations should start by assessing their security vulnerabilities and then developing a comprehensive cyber security strategy that takes into account governance, risk and compliance, users, data, applications, infrastructure and assets.