What makes the quintessential chief information security officer?

Given the strategic significance of digital transformation, IT security leadership is a really important role. And yet, only 12 percent of chief information security officers (CISOs) excel in all four categories of the 'CISO Effectiveness Index', according to the latest worldwide market study by Gartner.

Gartner analysts presented their global survey findings and discussed the key traits of top-performing CISOs during their recent 'Security & Risk Management...

12 October 2020 | CIO

Public cloud services revenue reached $233.4bn, says IDC: Analysing the new enterprise cloud journey

The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation trends. Savvy CIOs and CTOs that were an early adopter of public cloud computing technologies now have a significant strategic market lead over their competitors. Moreover, a few dominant IT platform providers continue to benefit from this trend.

The worldwide public cloud services market -- including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) -- grew by 26 percent...

5 October 2020 | Enterprise

IDC: Worldwide IT security spend will reach $174.7bn – with government and telecoms set to benefit

A distributed workforce, and ongoing work-from-home mandates, have evolved the charter of corporate information technology (IT) organisations. CIOs are now tasked to support flexible working arrangements that require them to reconsider prior assumptions about securing the combined infrastructure that enables an employee to perform work remotely.

Enterprise spending on IT security products and services has experienced new growth in 2020, as many organisations invest in solutions to...

30 September 2020 | Government