Security culture

4 Principles That Should Define Your Evolving Security Operations Model

Maintaining a strong security posture is a dynamic challenge for any organization. It depends on many factors, which can vary over time; companies across the globe are migrating to the cloud to scale more quickly, adopting the latest technology trends to expand the digital footprint and embracing new methodologies such as DevOps to accelerate time to market and address customer expectations.

Yet companies’ operating models are bolted onto an old paradigm that is not delivering the expected value. Although there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to the question of how to best organize the next security operations model, it is often effective to start with a top-down approach involving executives to establish a common aspiration and enable the broader transformation.

The four principles identified below are distilled from the lessons learned during many security transformation journeys.

1. Define Your Goals Clearly

A cybersecurity transformation requires leaders to clearly articulate the goals and principles that are driving it. After aligning all involved parties on these goals, executives can prioritize the work to be done....