Intelligent CISO Issue 46 | Page 42

EXPERT OPINION

our technology partners working in a much less siloed manner .

Let ’ s concentrate on the latter of those to begin with . Working closely with technology partners has not always been easy . Historically , security vendors worked in pursuit of a vision of their brand being the sole or primary provider of a customer organisation ’ s security estate . If other vendors had to be involved , there was a clear hierarchy and anyone seen as a competitor was kept at arms ’ length by the bigger vendor who wanted to control access to the key decision-makers : the CIO and CISO .

Fortunately , however , the benefits of collaboration between vendors are now widely recognised and the growth of cloud and APIs have opened up greater opportunities for vendors , who are now much more open to working together . Collaboration reduces the time between new threat discovery and protection implementation , allowing organisations to keep up with the everevolving threat landscape .

Interpol works incredibly hard to identify and stop malicious actors but we cybersecurity professionals still need information on the latest threats in order to effectively protect our organisations . Speeding up the delivery and dissemination of threat intelligence is therefore crucial . By breaking down barriers between security teams , we can in turn build a stronger cyber defence .

One example is the way that the cloud is being used by threat actors to attack in new ways , a trend exaggerated by the surge in remote working . According to Netskope ’ s Cloud and Threat Report ,

between January 1 , 2021 , and June 30 , 2021 , malware delivered via the cloud grew to 68 % compared to malware delivered via traditional web services . To stop these attacks , organisations need multiple unique defences to fend off phishing , malware and data theft .

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