The pandemic has catapulted security once more to the top of IT and executive leadership priorities, even the Board. However, at issue for the CIO and CISO is getting management buy-in when it comes to what technologies to acquire, how to integrate these into existing security strategies, the challenges in the journey to integration, and how to ensure that disruptions are kept to a minimum.Because we live in an ecosystem economy today where almost everything is connected, the challenge for the CIO and CISO is securing the appropriate budget that reflects the state of the security or insecurity of the industry, the availability of many with their respective price tags, and the limited resources the company must do everything while securing the business and its customers.In today’s PodChats for FutureCISO, we are joined by Jonathan Jackson, Director of Engineering, APAC at BlackBerry, to talk about How to get senior management buy-in when it comes to security projects.1. How is cybersecurity inextricably linked to digital growth in 2022? 2. [Just] how complex is the nature of security for an organisation today?3. Security is like insurance. It only becomes tangible when bad things happen. How can the CISO-CIO contextualise key cybersecurity trends and issues to reflect the bottom line – the things most important to leadership, the Board, and shareholders?4. If I take a cynical look at security spending, for the most part, I am spending money in the hope that I can prevent threat actors from successfully impacting my business. But given that from what the CISO-CIO and analysts are telling me – that threat actors are creative, aggressive, resourceful and relentless, how do I fight a war that seems one-sided? (talk about predictive advantage here)5. Gartner expects companies will spend US$77 billion in outsourcing security in 2022. Where do you see this spending being prioritised? More importantly, how should the CISO and CIO approach selling the idea of more outsourcing to leadership? (skills shortage, alert fatigue)6. Is it true that companies are more open to outsourcing security?7. Bottom line, given all the challenges, obstacles, and priorities, what are your top recommendations for how the CISO-CIO gets leadership buy-in around security spending in 2022 and beyond?

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