In recent years, CISOs have often felt that their board of directors did not take them seriously. This key issue for cybersecurity, however, is turning around, with 82% of CISOs now reporting directly to their CEOs, versus 47% in 2023, according to a survey by Splunk.
Splunk’s report, which surveyed 500 CISOs, CSOs, and similar security officers, as well as 100 board members, found that 83% of CISOs now attend board meetings relatively often or most of the time.
Important as well to the security of the enterprise is having someone with cybersecurity background on the board itself, as 60% of respondents acknowledged. There, however, companies have a ways to go, with only 29% of CISOs saying their companies someone with cybersecurity expertise on the board.
According to the study, board members with a CISO background have closer relationships with security teams, place more trust in the company’s security measures, and are far less likely (37%) to express concerns that not enough is being done to protect the company.
The study also shows that CISOs who have strong relationships with the board also report better collaboration throughout the company, including stronger partnerships with IT operations and engineering teams than do CISOs who do not have strong relationships with the board (74% vs. 63%).
CISOs with good relationships with the board are also more likely to have the opportunity to pursue generative AI use cases, such as creating rules for threat detection (43% vs. 31%), analyzing data sources (45% vs. 28%), incident response and forensic investigations (42% vs. 29%), or proactive threat hunting (46% vs. 28%).
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Source : https://www.csoonline.com/article/3810947/cisos-move-closer-to-the-management-board.html