CISOs role is uniquely positioned to help organizations manage dualities 

J. Paul Vijaykumar
Director – Sales, DigitalTrack Solutions

Preparedness to face challenges of data security: 
We DigitalTrack plays an active role in the digital transformation of industries to bring digital to every person, home, and organization. As digital transformation initiatives accelerate across the world, we have a clear responsibility to ensure that cyber security and privacy protection remains a top priority. Enforcing to customers and implementing an end-to-end global cyber security assurance and privacy protection system is one of our crucial strategies.

The best practices adopted for remote working:  
In the hybrid workplace of the future, identity becomes the new perimeter—the first line of defence for any organisation. IT teams must look at scaling VPNs and multifactor authentication (MFA) to        verify each user’s identity before allowing them access to the network. As companies fast-track their move to the cloud, it’s crucial to deploy secure access services edge architecture (SASE) to ensure protection for multi-cloud access.

Role of CISOs:  
As the guardians of information security, it's the CISO's role to create a strategy that deals with ever-increasing regulatory complexity, creating the policies, security architecture, processes and systems that help reduce cyber threats and keep data secure. CISOs will understand how the cybersecurity threat landscape is evolving and how that could affect the security risks facing their particular organisation. The chief information security officer (CISO) role is uniquely positioned to help organizations manage those dualities, but it requires a different set of leadership qualities for CISOs that goes well beyond their traditional role as guardians of all things technological.