• The New Value of Security
Anupam Mittal
Chairman & MD, People Group
Raman Roy
CMD, Quatrro BPO Solutions
Nirmal Jain
chairman, India Infoline
Arun Kanchan
CEO, BSES
Adi B. Godrej
Chairman, Godrej Group
Anand Mahindra
Vice Chairman & MD, M&M
Ashok Soota
Chairman & MD, MindTree Consulting

The New Value of Security

The future of enterprise security will be value-driven. The executive director and partner, Performance Improvement, PwC, tells you what  exactly that is.

 

Interviewed By :Gunjan Trivedi
Sivarama Krishnan
ED, Partner, Performance Improvement, PwC
  • How do you foresee the information threat landscape shaping up in the near future? What’s our biggest problem in 2010?  

    Sivarama Krishnan :

    The threat landscape is changing. I believe the critical threats that are now evolving include eco-terrorism, insider threat, profit-driven attacks, pandemics, vulnerabilities in cloud computing and Web 2.0, among others. We are witnessing a significant shift in the threat landscape as attacks from viruses, botnets, and the like, which are basically intent on exploiting vulnerabilities, to a more sophisticated form of attack, one aimed at gaining financial benefit.

     

  • Will an organization’s security stance change to accommodate this new threat?  
  • What about CIOs? How should they change?  
  • What about disruptive changes? What do you see on the horizon?  
  • Over 35 percent of Indian CIOs considered managed security services a key strategy, during the slowdown. Will that continue? 
  • From the 2009 CIO-PwC State of Information Security survey, insider threat is still a significant problem. Will that change in 2010? 
  • Many CIOs say that the regulatory environment became more burdensome during the downturn. Is that your observation too? 
  • What changes do you see in the way companies will invest in security in 2010?  
  • A final word: One thing that CIOs should keep in mind in 2010. 

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