Cybersecurity for Oil and Gas Industry

Cybersecurity for Manufacturing Industry

Cybersecurity for Healthcare Industry

What defines a successful leader that drives an effective cybersecurity strategy? What are you doing as leaders to ensure the wellbeing of your remote team?

• Strategic: Defines a long term vision and executes a roadmap to achieve that vision.
• Transparent: Strong & effective communication across their own organization and across the firm.
• Collaborative: Creates partnerships across the firm.
• Business Aware: Understands business processes as well as organizational Risk Framework in order to ensure that security strategies are aligned to the organizational risk appetite and serve as an enabler for the business.
• Fosters Talent Management: Develops people and establishes a talent pipeline of skills and inclusiveness.
• Executive Presence: Ability to communicate effectively with all parts of the organization in order to raise awareness, and influence decisions.
• People Come First: Understand your organization through employee satisfaction surveys and have leadership meetings with teams (i.e. 1 above your boss). Keep connected to your teams, remain transparent and spend time with them. It is also important to foster a culture where your managers are staying close to their staff, and recognize they are the success to your business.

How do we show the performance and results of the cybersecurity strategy or investment?

Reporting does not provide any meaning or full value unless the progress aligns to a strategy or roadmap. My simple guiding principle would be the following:

• Ensure you have a framework, or roadmap that defines and informs your investment in technology or implementation strategy.
• Determine what type of reporting is required to demonstrate progress against your roadmap and develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that will measure the progress of the reporting metric you are developing.
• Establish a risk statement associated with what you are trying to mitigate, and develop Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) that demonstrate risk reduction as your implementation progresses.

As Canadian organizations reopened for business, they had to quickly address infrastructure and productivity needs to account for the dramatic rise of remote workers and workstations. As we continue under this new way to conduct business, organizations must lean on their competitive advantage by staying resilient regardless of any kind of crisis or disruption. A business continuity plan with a proactive and effective strategy to secure employees and digital assets is key to success in this uncertain future.

In the fire side chat with cybersecurity leaders, Gerry Owens, Enza Alexander and Chris Ruetz, we unpacked the strategies on how to stay secure and what it takes to be a successful IT & Security leader during these turbulent times.

Read the recap and key discussion points here.