How Can a Business Ensure Seamless Operations in Security, Breaking through Siloed Operations, Friction to Fusion Mindset

Abstract

There is a need for a dedicated security team in businesses especially due to the evolved Cybersecurity threat landscape, the techniques and attacks have become more sophisticated than ever. There are numerous variants of basic cybersecurity threat like social engineering. The scope and reality of lateral attacks is now more than ever. Dedicated and spanned security teams work with a singular vision of ensuring minimal to no business impact due to security risks, however this vision takes a hit if the operations amongst teams are siloed. Executives & management especially CISOs need to have access to centralized repository of data that brings in data from all security teams and not just one or two. Lack of collaboration and separate charter amongst security teams significantly impact the business decisions thereafter, there are various factors contributing to this effect. The article here firstly introduces the basic rationale of these instances occurring and then gets into the context, foundation on the teams involved, eventually describing the method that will help alleviate these concerns and risks.

This article is meant to articulate a solution that has worked in a few firms and can be easily replicated across industries, in solving the problem of siloed operations not only in security but also between security and engineering teams.