OUR STORY
Let’s help you, CISOs!
Let us help to translate your cybersecurity strategies into actionable practices.
We have been busy the last couple of months as we noticed digital transformation is taking place rapidly especially with the inception of Generative AI (Gen AI) for both businesses and individuals. We are all aware that Gen AI and data-driven AI can be used for a variety of tasks, and it has benefited organizations as it helps with interactive marketing, automating processes, improving customer interaction, and even helping to innovate new products.
In fact, with this data-driven and Gen AI, IT has evolved drastically. CIOs and ITs become an enabler for organizations, driving business transformation and operational improvement by leveraging these newer technologies.
These adoptions represent a significant shift in how businesses and organizations operate today, especially having a data-driven culture to be more efficient and improve decision-making for the organization.
These data-driven AI and especially Gen AI today have helped
- Finance to gain improvement in their financial forecasting, risk management, expense management automation, regulatory compliance, and perhaps even fraud detection.
- Marketing becoming more innovative as enhances customer experiences, improves content, optimizes campaign performance, and has AI-driven tools that can personalize customer interactions and generate more leads.
- Operations and Production by streamlining processes, optimizing workflows, improving overall efficiencies, and reducing wastage.
- Human Resources to expedite recruitment processes, employee engagement, performance management, learning and development as most administrative tasks will be automated thus having HR efficient in managing core organizational issues.
While newer technologies play a crucial role in enabling core functions, they also introduce new vulnerabilities and cyber threats, thereby increasing the workload for CISOs and their teams. Even as you place more efforts to secure their systems, organizations remain susceptible to cyber-attacks and risk, especially as the complexity of threat evolves.
Many organizations now invest heavily in advanced technologies like AI, Gen AI, and automated security systems to mitigate cyber threats, but we cannot eliminate that human intervention remains crucial in mitigating those potential risks. No matter how sophisticated the technology becomes, human oversight is essential for properly managing, monitoring, and adapting security systems to evolving threats. This is because technology alone cannot account the nuances and unpredictability of human behaviour or the complexity of certain cyber threats.
Why is human intervention is essential in mitigating cyber threats?
Research by Fortinet shows that 63% of cyber attacks originate from within the organization, primarily due to employee negligence. These internal risks originated intentionally or unintentionally, third-party vulnerabilities, malicious insider threats, or even potential collusive employees who steal intellectual property for personal financial gain.
Hence, human intervention is still crucial because humans can ensure the policies are adhered to, and systems and tools are effectively used to protect the organization from internal and external threats.
We have been busy!
We recognize that many organizations today have CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) and other cybersecurity professionals. And we also know that these resources are swamped to manage the daily risks and interventions needed to protect against the constantly evolving landscape of cyber threats. These are due to;
- Increase volume and sophisticated cyber threats – CISOs and their teams may implement robust defense systems, but the volume of incidents, alerts, and vulnerabilities often overwhelms their limited team members.
- CISOs and their teams are burned out from the high workloads as they are constantly on alert mode for monitoring, managing incident response, and even configuring patch management.
- To minimize potential risk, companies invested in various security tools thus creating more complex security measures needed to analyze and manage the overwhelming number of alerts..
- CISOs are often overloaded with operational responsibilities, including stakeholder management, and compliance issues, thus leaving them with limited time for strategic planning and duties. They need to juggle these responsibilities which can detract them from their ability to focus on long-term security strategies.
- Today, many organizations are overloaded with regulatory compliance requirements and frequent audits, which demand significant time and resources from the security team to ensure compliance. This focus on compliance can divert attention from daily security operations.
Addressing Cybersecurity Risks
In light of these challenges, how can we help organizations mitigate cybersecurity risk? Our Digital Minister recently reported an alarming 1192% surged in data breach compared to cases reported in 2023.
So we decided, we wanted to help these CISOs, and their team while you oversee their overall cybersecurity strategy. We, therefore, structure the necessary human intervention to help them strengthen their line of security defense so that they can;
- Bridge their cybersecurity talent gap as we recognize the significant global shortage of cybersecurity talent and aim to address this by training and upskilling existing employees, empowering them with the human intervention skills necessary to mitigate potential threats.
- Cultivating a cybersecurity culture, given that many cyber threats originate from within organizations. We help to create awareness from an external perspective and help organizations foster a culture of cybersecurity practices, enabling non-cybersecurity personnel to be proactive in detecting threats.
- Ensuring compliance and regulatory policies. CISOs are accountable and responsible for complying with various legal and regulatory requirements, hence human intervention is essential for interpreting and effectively these policies.
- Improving communication between technical and business teams. We all know technical resources often speak differently from business users. Facilitating the translation of complex issues in layman and business terms can help CISOs secure the resources, and buy-in needed for potential cybersecurity adoption and investment. This also helps to foster collaboration across different business units and users.
- Managing Third-Party Risks. The increasing use of technologies and tools means more third-party vendors and partners are exposed to external threats. Therefore, it is not just managing third-party vendor and partner relationships, it’s more about managing and ensuring proper security controls to minimize external risk effectively.
Recognizing the above risk, we want to support these CISOs and their teams. That’s the reason why we were busy as our courses are designed to build foundational knowledge and bridge the communication gaps between IT professionals, non-cybersecurity resources, aspiring practitioners, and governance teams. We hope by addressing these, we can lessen CISOs workload thus helping you to bridge the talent gaps and empower organizations to a safer digital environment.
