Can Security Be a Profit Center?

Defense in Depth

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Is it possible to position your security team as a profit center instead of the traditional cost center reporting to the CIO?

Check out this post for the discussion that are the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Steve Zalewski. Our guest is Michael Weiss, CISO, Human Interest.

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In this episode:

• Is it possible to position your security team as a profit center instead of the traditional cost center reporting to the CIO?
• Is security still primarily an efficiency conversation or has effectiveness now changed the dialogue on how success is measured?
• How to go about measuring the value cybersecurity provides the enterprise.
• We examine the problems that can arise when security is treated as a profit center.