Helen Patton Talks About the Opportunities and Challenges of a CISO’s Five-Year Plan
After taking care of the low-hanging fruit of a five-year plan, what’s next for a CISO to tackle? That’s what Helen Patton, NTSC Board Member and CISO of Ohio State University, addresses in her latest Medium post titled “Finding Security Focus in a Target Rich Environment.” The next steps are not so obvious or intuitive. As she says, “How do you tell your general IT staff to get back to basics, while also engaging them to think big about blockchain? How do you get your CFO to invest in more licenses, or staff, or training on a new product, while also spending dollars on test initiatives for Artificial Intelligence?”