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The Top 10 Things Every CISO Should Know

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What Every CISO Should Know in 2023 to Protect Their Business


In our rapidly evolving digital age, the role of a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has never been more crucial. As a CISO, your role stretches far beyond traditional IT security measures. You are the protector of your organization’s most valuable assets, from intellectual property to customer data. The following insights delve deeper into what every CISO should know in 2023 to ensure they’re at the forefront of safeguarding their business.


1. Grasping the Business

Understanding your business inside out is paramount. The best CISOs fully comprehend the company’s goals, mission, and operational mechanics. Why is this so vital? Because only with this understanding can you adequately prioritize and champion security initiatives. Furthermore, by aligning security measures with business goals, you ensure that security is not viewed as a roadblock but rather an enabler of growth and success.


2. Emphasizing Effective Risk Management

Risk management isn’t just a box to tick; it’s a continual process. This involves constant vigilance—identifying emerging threats, assessing their potential impact, and implementing controls to counteract them. Today’s cyber threats are dynamic, with cybercriminals using sophisticated techniques that change by the minute. Hence, regular risk assessments and updates are non-negotiable. But, just as crucial is the art of communication. The ability to articulate these risks, along with their potential implications to the board and executives, can make the difference between proactive action and reactive damage control.


3. Moving Beyond Compliance

While regulatory compliance is essential, in 2023, it’s merely a starting point. With the ever-evolving threat landscape, relying solely on regulations and standards can render a business vulnerable. It’s like only installing a front door lock while leaving all the windows open. Instead, a proactive approach, involving continuous assessment and adaptation of security measures to the unique needs and threats faced by your organization, is pivotal.


4. Championing Security Awareness

The human factor can often be the weakest link in any security chain. As such, empowering every single employee with the knowledge and tools to act as the first line of defense is vital. This means ongoing training, regular reminders, and cultivating a culture where security is everyone’s business. Remember, from the receptionist to the CEO, everyone can either be an asset or a vulnerability.


5. Harnessing the Power of Effective Communication

Clear, concise, and compelling communication can be one of the most potent tools in a CISO’s arsenal. It’s essential to translate the often complex world of security into language that everyone—from the tech newbie to the seasoned board member—can grasp. Regularly updating stakeholders about security postures, potential risks, and ongoing initiatives not only fosters trust but also reinforces the importance of collective vigilance.


Expanding the CISO’s Toolkit in 2023:

But let’s push the envelope further. In addition to the critical pointers above, CISOs in 2023 should be aware of:


6. Embracing the Cloud and Zero Trust: 

As businesses transition to cloud infrastructures, understanding cloud security best practices becomes paramount. Moreover, adopting a Zero Trust approach—where every access request is fully authenticated, authorized, and encrypted before granting access—ensures layered defense in a distributed work environment.


7. Machine Learning and AI:

Cybercriminals are leveraging AI; so should you. Incorporating machine learning can help in anomaly detection, identifying potential threats faster than any human could, and enhancing predictive analytics. Findings not only automates assessments and the auditing process for all of your company’s vendors, but we also offer real time updates on your risk posture powered by RiskRecon and Anomali.


8. Regular Penetration Testing:

Gone are the days when an annual penetration test sufficed. Regularly challenging your systems can expose vulnerabilities before cybercriminals exploit them.


9. Incident Response Preparedness:

It’s not about if, but when a breach might occur. Having a well-rehearsed incident response plan ensures rapid containment, minimizing potential damage.


10. Collaborative Security:

Partnering with other businesses, industry groups, and governmental bodies can provide invaluable intelligence and resources. Cybersecurity is a collective endeavor.


In conclusion, being a CISO in 2023 means juggling many balls—compliance, risk management, employee training, effective communication, technological advancements, and more. The threat landscape might be challenging, but with the right approach, tools, and mindset, CISOs can ensure their organizations are robustly defended and primed for growth.


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Automated Security Assessments: Expectations and Preparation

What to expect during an automated security assessment and how to prepare for it - findings.co

Automated security assessments are one of the most talked about features in the supply chain management industry. Organizations have turned to automated solutions to enhance their risk management and supply chain compliance after recognizing the need to eliminate the burdensome and time-consuming task of manually auditing and tracking numerous vendors. It makes sense after all. Who wants to spend hours on end of manual work to audit and chase hundreds of thousands of vendors? 


The answer is: no one. 


Findings’ comprehensive platform has gone above and beyond to automate risk management and supply chain compliance, saving organizations of all sizes extensive manual work and reducing friction. 


Now, let’s break down some things you should expect to see when using the platform that will ultimately help you prepare. 


  1. Assessment Logic 


When managing assessments in Findings platform, you can create an assessment from scratch with branching logic or upload pre-existing assessments and tweak it to suit your needs. When you create an assessment from scratch, you can create a question with various answer choices. If the answer choices are branching types such as the Radio button, multiply select, or dropdown, you can create a follow-up question based on a certain response chosen. 


When it comes to uploading assessments from pre-existing documents, you can edit the subjects and alter the logic to suit the vendor’s needs via our assessment wizard. Once the assessment has been uploaded you can clone, edit and tailor custom it with various app integrations for the associated vendors. 


  1. Findings and Remediation:


Imagine the ability to pre-create remediation plans and suggestions. Essentially, rather than sending out an assessment to a vendor and having to review it and write out compliance corrections and suggestions manually, this is pre-prepared before the vendor even begins the assessment. For any answer choice that is not in compliance, you can create a remediation suggested plan for that answer and change the risk level that will affect the vendor’s overall score. When the vendor completes the assessment, they already have a remediation plan ready for them, so that they can bridge the gaps without all the time-consuming back and forth. 


  1. Response Repository (NLP):


Our response repository is based on neuro-linguistic programming and is one of the biggest assets our users hold. When a vendor or customer completes an assessment, our system scans the answers and creates a respiratory for similar written questions the next time an assessment is completed. The next time a user completes an assessment, our automated suggested answers pop up and the user can insert the answers based on the relevant match. This saves numerous hours of manual work by having to complete assessments from scratch. Within seconds, your assessment can be completed and you can focus on other essential tasks. 


Automated security assessments provided by Findings are perfect for organizations seeking efficient risk management and streamlined supply chain compliance. By automating the assessment process, organizations of all sizes can save valuable time and resources that would otherwise be spent on manual audits and vendor follow-ups. By utilizing the features we offer, organizations can complete assessments quickly and focus on other essential tasks, ultimately improving their overall security posture and supply chain management.






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