When your CEO asks, "Are we secure?" what do you say?
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What would you say if your boss came up to you and asked, "How secure are we?" It’s an apparently simple question, yet extremely difficult to answer. We posed this question to attendees of the Tenable ISE VIP Welcome Reception with T.E.N. the night before the launch of the RSA Conference 2015. Check out their answers here, or in video format at: http://bit.ly/how-secure --- Security professionals featured in this slideshare: Chris Egaaen Jennifer Graham Jay Schwitzgebel Steven Lodin Rhonda Simmon Tony Zirnoon Christina Critzer David Rooker John Graham Bill Olson Alex Hutton Kenneth Haertling David Mortman Greg Press Ron Gula
When your CEO asks, "Are we secure?" what do you say?
- 1. Conference2015 San Francisco | April 20-24 | Moscone Center When your CEO asks, “Are we secure?” what do you say?
- 2. “As secure as we can be.” - Chris Egaaen, Sycomp Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 3. “We could be more secure if you give me more money.” - Jennifer Graham SunTrust Banks, Inc. Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 4. “We’re only as secure as the things we know about.” - Jay Schwitzgebel HealthPlan Services Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 5. “According to our audits we’re doing a good job.” - Steven Lodin, Sallie Mae Bank Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 6. “I think we’re pretty secure but it’s always a moving target.” - Rhonda Simmon, New York Life Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 7. “As good as it gets, my friend. You’re never as secure as you can be. It’s about risk management.” - Tony Zirnoon, Global Security Strategy Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 8. “Very secure, but we’re only one incident away from a problem as is every other company.” - Christina Critzer, SunTrust Banks, Inc. Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 9. “The hackers are just as good as we are, and we’re constantly ?ghting. We have to be right 100% of the time. They have to be right one.” - David Rooker, Actian Corporation Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 10. “We are as secure as we can be today. We are continuing to mature, and we'll be more secure tomorrow.” - John Graham, Jabil Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 11. “I’d ?rst ask what are our goals? How do we de?ne being secure? How do we de?ne what we are going to measure?” - Bill Olson, Tenable Network Security Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 12. “We have a number of threat vectors that we watch, and we have made a number of investments on those.” - Alex Hutton, IANS Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 13. “The key thing we do is we go and look at benchmarks and see how we compare on it. So, probably not secure enough, but trying to get there.” - Kenneth Haertling, Telus Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 14. “We are aiming for ‘secure enough.’ Not ‘too secure’ because that means you are spending money you don't need to spend, and ‘not secure enough’ means you get owned.” - David Mortman, Dell Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 15. “Today we’re about medium. Medium means right now we don't have any active attacks, and we're monitoring the situation.” - Greg Press, Munich Re Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?
- 16. “Based on industry practices, we've done the best that we can. Using something like SecurityCenter makes it easy to say you've done best practices recommended by the government, by the payment card industry, by penetration testers, and the really, really basic cyber hygiene things.” - Ron Gula, Tenable Network Security Watch the #RSAC video: bit.ly/how-secure If your CEO asks, “How secure are we?” what do you say?