Corporate Tech Leaders Untangle Their Cybersecurity Roles
Information technology and cybersecurity chiefs grew closer than ever in 2022, a dynamic allowing for more comprehensive threat mitigation, but raising new questions over responsibilities. Many executives now say that as their roles around cyber appear to converge, they are working to sort out the dividing lines between their shared security and IT responsibilities. A few years ago, if organizations were hit with a ransomware attack, the chief information officer “would come running” to the chief information security officer for help in dealing with the aftermath, said
Lena Smart,
the CISO of database service provider
MongoDB Inc.
Now, Ms. Smart said her security department works with CIO
Min...