Gone are the days when technology and cybersecurity concerns had to be addressed solely by the IT department.
With artificial intelligence (AI), post-quantum (PQ), and an increasingly intense threat landscape, senior leadership teams and boards can make the right investments and provide strategic guidance and oversight to help sustain their organizations and employees. You have a duty of care to provide. , customers, and other key stakeholders.
If that's not enough incentive, federal agencies continue to accelerate disclosure of breach information and hold executives accountable for security and data privacy incidents. Pursuing a company-wide Zero Trust strategy is critical to strong corporate governance and is a board-level priority.
Current framework
NIST's recently released Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 strengthens the strategic connection between Zero Trust and governance. The updated CSF provides guidance and examples for implementing Zero Trust and adds “governance” to five other key framework capabilities: identity, protection, detection, response, and recovery.
While governance was implicit in previous iterations of the CSF, it has now been codified to ensure that an organization's strategy is directly tied to cybersecurity roles and responsibilities, and addresses five other functions. Let businesses know what they need to do to NIST's focus on governance strengthens collaboration across the executive team and emphasizes the board's fiduciary responsibility.
This focus on governance is key to minimizing business risk and protecting shareholder value, but there is tremendous pressure to effectively communicate cyber risks to the board and meet regulatory requirements. is also imposed on management. This is where Zero Trust comes into play.
Lead your organization to success
Zero Trust is not a product you should buy or check out. It's a strategic approach to improving cyber resiliency that can help increase organizational agility, reduce compliance costs, reduce IT complexity and total cost of ownership, and, of course, strengthen corporate governance.
CISA's recently released Zero Trust Maturity Model 2.0 provides a roadmap for pursuing a Zero Trust strategy with updated guidelines on five key pillars: identity, device, network, data, and applications and workloads. To do. Like CSF 2.0, this latest version focuses on governance. CISA's updated guidelines reinforce that governance of cybersecurity policies, procedures, and processes within and across the five pillars is essential to improving cyber resilience and maintaining regulatory compliance.
Long considered a best practice in cybersecurity, pursuing a zero trust strategy is now also an explicit requirement from both NIST and CISA for strong corporate governance, and organizations are now making sure that it is a business practice. should be considered essential.
