Can Security Be a Profit Center?

Published: June 23, 2022, 10 a.m.

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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\xa0for the discussion that are the basis of our conversation on this week\u2019s episode co-hosted by me,\xa0David Spark\xa0(@dspark), the producer of\xa0CISO Series, and\xa0Steve Zalewski.\xa0Our 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.