I know that I am always looking for better, cheaper, and faster ways to do what I do now. As regulations like PCI become more prescriptive, as discovery and compliance tools get better, as organizations embed security more seamlessly in the business, and as security itself becomes part of more expansive and, theoretically, more valuable business roles, will security professionals need to reinvent themselves? When I first crossed from business to technology and then to security, I realized that many in the worlds I left behind saw security as a bunch of gizzard-gazing soothsayers, speaking a foreign tongue, who were something of a necessary evil. Security people complained of being starved for resources and felt shunned and misunderstood by the bean counters.
The last decade’s triple whammy of heightened terror alerts, increased regulation and globalization’s pressure on organizations’ overhead has resulted in more resources for security but at the cost of security increasingly having to justify its value. Very few jobs in any large organization look like they did 20 years ago; some of security’s most traditional work may see big changes ahead. How do we prepare our colleagues and teams for those challenges and turn them into opportunities?
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