The simple sign is your Trust and Confidence: Do you have faith in your security program?
For a moment be honest and ask yourself: am I confident with my company security program? Do I have faith in our security team? Do they really know what they are doing? Does my information security officer worth pay 300 grands? How can I say my IT department is really at the top of security trends? Ami paying too much or less for security budget?
Why I Do Not Trust in My Security Program?
If your answer to any of above questions is shaky, you hesitate to answer, or just do not know that answer, or for any reason you are not sleeping peacefully at night, then your security program already failed!
Has Your Security Program Stuck?
But that is not your fault directly, not even your team, no one to blame from your side! The only thing to blame is “market”. Unfortunately, market pushes you and many top managers of security teams within big corporations to spend money on things that would not improve the security posture, otherwise you would sleep peacefully just like those who do not have any online presence.
Market pushes us to spend and at the same time not have a peaceful mind; today is about a new trend, tomorrow even before catching up with yesterday “message” you attend a webinar and you face a new challenge, all true, but all irrelevant.
Why with hundreds of thousands spending on my cybersecurity initiatives, still I do not feel confident?!
You or your technology team do not have even enough time to catch up with emails and whitepapers full of useful info, let alone choosing and implementing what exactly you’re looking for. Even a week after implementation you realize there was better solution or you wish you would purchase another solution or just waited one week to buy the new one just arrived at your mailbox!
Sounds familiar? Then you are not alone among majority of information security managers, engineers and architectures. Simply blame the “market”! Market is constantly pushing us to spend and still not being confident. Does it sound like something wrong? There has to be a different way. It does not make sense; it is not that much complicated!
The trick is simply getting out of this sanity and leave the market flow and pass you! You won’t lose anything, do not worry. Step back, stop, relax and research more. There are very simple ways with less effort and less budget with more confident outcome. Simpler than you could imagine!
