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How Agencies Can Transform Government While Controlling Business Risk
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Deloitte CIO survey 2016-2017 – UK Edition
Deloitte’s 2016–2017 global survey of CIOs, UK edition, takes a step forward in understanding of how CIOs create legacy - the value and impact technology leaders deliver to their organisations.
The survey explores the extent to which CIO personality traits (“nature”) influence legacy more or less than technology capabilities (“nurture”). It also explore the gaps between IT capabilities and business expectations and the agility of CIOs to realign their capabilities to their business needs. Finally, it analyses the idea of the “digital iceberg” and how CIOs are better positioned than any other occupant of the C-suite to drive digital across the entire organisation.
The survey uncovered a shift in business priorities from “business performance” to “customers,” with 57% of CIOs choosing “customers” as their top priority, compared to 45% in last year’s survey. “Customer” remained the top priority for eight of the 10 industries represented in the survey. However, only 45% of CIOs stated their information technology organisation is involved in delivering customer experience through IT capabilities, and 28% of CIOs feel their IT organisations are below average in their digital skill sets.
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In 2017, the insider threat epidemic begins
Insider threats begin with trusted employees whose frustration, resentment, apathy, lack of cyber security training and awareness, or external motivations radicalise them to unintentionally or willfully inflict harm on the organisation by compromising systems, assisting external cyber threat actors in multi-vector information warfare, or exfiltrating treasure troves of valuable PII, PHI, and other sensitive data.
Perimeter-based defences cannot stop the threats that are already inside the network. Bleeding-edge defence-grade insider threat solutions, such as user and entity behavioral analytics (UEBA), identity and access management (IAM), virtualisation and user activity monitoring (UAM) are necessary to detect, deter and mitigate the mounting insider threat epidemic against critical infrastructure.
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CW ASEAN: Time to dial up defences
With a relatively young and tech-savvy population, ASEAN has been at the forefront of technology adoption. Yet, this has exposed its people and businesses to more cyber threats, including the massive data leak in Malaysia in 2017. In this month’s issue of CW ASEAN, we take a closer look at ASEAN’s patchy cyber security landscape, including varying levels of cyber resilience across the region, cyber security strategies adopted by different countries, as well as efforts to improve cyber capabilities and foster greater collaboration in the common fight against cyber threats.
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How some of the biggest cyber security disasters could have been avoided
The headline-grabbing breaches that hit Accenture and Equifax in 2017 could have been averted had basic cyber hygiene been in place, as could a major DDoS attack that brought down the US internet.
Malaysia partners with China’s Huawei to coordinate cyber security strategy
Joint steering committee will meet twice a year to address cyber security issues, among other measures to shore up Malaysia’s cyber security capabilities.
Taking the complexity out of security
The key to improving the cyber security posture of organizations is to keep complexity at bay, says Eric Lam, Asia director for Microsoft’s Enterprise Cybersecurity Group.
