Security leaders must proactively monitor and evaluate major IT trends, the threat landscape, and security market trends to identify input for strategic business initiatives, identify future business opportunities, and identify areas of future risk concern. Proactively evaluating the security impact of major disruptive technology trends, threat landscape developments, and security market trends can provide a highly security-intelligent, managed-risk approach to security spend. This can be done by:
- Leveraging this forward-looking understanding to influence business strategy decision making in order to realize more overall security value.
- Proving a well defined and understood approach for monitoring and evaluating major IT security trends and opportunities.
- Enabling the CISO or security leader to be prepared for eventual conversations and requests from business units and the CEO so that they may turn ad hoc security into a long-term, proactive program that will no longer impede business changes.
Don't be caught unaware by something you didn't know existed. Be prepared for the security landscape of 2015.