Partnering with internal and external providers

Partnering with both internal and external providers is an essential task for CISOs in an organization. The work of the CISO touches on all the aspects of a company. In the modern business landscape, where many business operations have been automated and digitalized, any of these automated points can present a vulnerability to the business, hence impacting the security posture of an organization. It requires CISOs and their security teams to understand all the aspects of the business properly to ensure that they can perform effective evaluation and vulnerability testing. Therefore, the security team will need to partner up with other departments within the company to ensure that the CISO not only understands all the aspects of the business but that they can also get the input of the various partners regarding possible security policies and their implementation in the businesses.

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