Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Chief Security Officer is a lonely place.

In a recent security meeting, I came to the realization that Chief Security Officer is a lonely position. Not only do we have to fight external attacks, we have to explain, educate and justify the actions we take within our organization.

What is your experience?

October is National CyberSecurity Awareness Month

It seems to be the appropriate time to start this CSO Insider blog during this CyberSecurity Awarenwess Month. Dept of Homeland Security and President Obama saw the importance of CyberSecurity and wanted to bring attention to the nation.
The theme "Stop, Think, Connect" is so appropriate. I believe much of our security issues can be lessened if the general population has a better understand and awareness of the security issues we all face. After all, how many people even know this is CyberSecurity Month? We can all start by providing the DHS link to others so that they can start getting educated on the challenges we face.