Top CIOs offer tips for business security

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Ten chief information and security officers from some of the biggest companies in the world came together to offer enterprises IT security strategies advice as the recession hits worldwide.

Executives from companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Motorola, eBay and Time Warner, part of the 'Security for Business Innovation Council', have been discussing since last April some of the current challenges faced by corporate IT security.

They considered strategies for how CIOs could offer more despite decreasing budgets, with RSA revealing the findings in a new report.

Andrew Moloney, RSA marketing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), said that the goal of the council was to try and share best practice among CIOs and CISOs, so that they could help drive their businesses strategy from a security perspective.

The main recommendations for managing security programs during 2009 were to prioritise based on risk and reward, have the right mix of people on your team, build repeatable processes, create an optimal shared strategy, and automate and outsource wisely.

Moloney said that although the executives came together last April, the economy - and the impact on budgets it would have - were already at the forefront of their minds.

He said: “Certainly people were looking hard at how they were focusing their investments, and in security terms I think it was part of an ongoing trend to migrate from being considered a tax on the business to where it was really integrated with business strategy.”

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