Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning. Automated solutions make
it easier to respond to anomalous
activity and known threats
attempting to breach the network –
allowing security teams time to focus
on strategy and remediation efforts.
For example, rather than having
security teams working around the
clock to detect potential internal
threats, they can use Machine
Learning to understand what normal
behaviour for employees looks
like and then react when there
are deviations. They can also be
assigned menial tasks such as
inventory management and patching,
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freeing up human resources to focus
on higher-order activities.
3. Create a culture of security: By
focusing on training and enabling
employees to perform basic
security tasks such as updating
devices, identifying suspicious
behaviours and practising safe
cyber behaviour across teams,
CISOs can begin to establish a
holistic security strategy that can
stand up to today’s advanced
threats. But beyond making sure
that employees can identify
phishing attacks or know how to
update their applications on a
regular basis, CISOs should also
encourage collaboration between
departments and the security
team. This will reduce instances
of inadvertent internal threats and
increase overall buy-in for the
security programme.
Within a context where cyber-risk is
almost certain to escalate, effective
CISOs will maximise their resources
– and will then marshal their people,
budget and expertise to fight the battles
that matter most.
This kind of flexible, scalable defence will
prove most effective in the counterattacks
against cyberbreaches to come. u
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