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This week on Tech Leaders’ Intel we’re speaking to Torbjörn Andersson, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Medius, a private equity backed company that provides cloud-based spend-management solutions. Torbjörn has over 20 years of experience in IT, 12 of which are in information and cloud security.
Drawing on Torbjörn’s wealth of experience, we begin by discussing the challenges of moving over from consultancy into the SaaS field, a field that requires a far broader, strategic view of how problems affect the wider company. For Torbjörn, an essential part of his role as CISO is being an information security (InfoSec) salesman to the rest of the company, explaining its benefits to people who may not always understand its importance. The key? Prioritising your work and communicating that effectively to the rest of the business to secure buy-in. Open communication is essential to making sure security is integrated from the get-go, rather than something tagged on later.
We then move on to discussion around the increased threat of cyber-attacks today – some from very advanced threat actors – and how to address it. Something non-experts may not understand, Torbjörn explains, is that we can never be 100% secure: someone will eventually manage to get through our defences. That’s why it’s so important to have the discussion early on about what success is and recognise why you sometimes must focus on damage limitation. How to go about this? By increased monitoring at an early stage, thorough incidence response training, crisis management and continuity planning for the whole company, as well as rolling risk analysis.
Say no more, Torbjörn – you’ve convinced us! If you want to discuss these issues, and more, with Torbjörn, you can find him on LinkedIn and keep the conversation going.
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