Daily Archives: Monday, February 13, 2017

Dear CISO, please talk about business with your board, not technicality.

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 02/13/2017 Editorials, Editorials in English

Antonio Ieranò CSO, Cyber Security Architect, technical evangelist, consultant, writer, journalist and trainer Dear CISO and Board I think we should always consider our job as a part of the business. We finally started to consider cyber security and data protection as a serious issue but now the question is how we evaluate a risk in our analysis and business plans… Current documentations and reports, for risk analysis, presented to most of the boards use just a flag (High, medium, low risk) but does not seems to specify any metric. Without metric it is hard to make sound evaluation and…

Caro CISO, ti suggerisco di parlare d’affari con il tuo CdA, evita tecnicismi.

antonio.ierano@ierano.it 02/13/2017 Editoriali in Italiano, Editorials

Caro consiglio di amministrazione e caro CISO Penso che dovremmo sempre considerare il nostro lavoro come una parte del business. Abbiamo finalmente iniziato a prendere in considerazione la sicurezza informatica e la protezione dei dati come un problema serio, ma ora la domanda è come valutare un rischio nei nostri piani di analisi e di business… Usualmente la documentazione e le relazioni per l’analisi di rischio, presentati nelle aziende (se e quando vengono presentati ovvio) si limitano, per la maggior parte, all’uso di valori generici (rischio alto, medio, basso), ma non sembra che si usi specificare qualsiasi metrica. Senza metrica è difficile…

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Antonio Ieranò Evangelist, Manager, BDM, Advisor, Writer, Speaker, Coach HOME: Via Gabriele D'Annunzio, 29, 27010 Vistarino (Pavia) Italy. Mobile phone: +39 347 9293757 E-mail: antonio.ierano@ierano.it; Twitter: @ antonioierano @thepuchiherald Web: http://ierano.it I am an IT professional Manager, BDM, marketing specialist, and tech evangelist with over 16 years of experience serving as a community liaison, subject matter expert, and high-profile trainer for key technologies and solutions. My experience includes acting as the public face of Cisco security technologies; leading pan-European technical teams in development of new Cisco security products; and serving as a key public speaker and trainer on behalf of new high-tech products. My expertise spans IT development and implementation, marketing strategy, legal issues, and budget / financial management. Specialties and Executive Expertise IT Strategy, Technical Audits, Enterprise Architecture & Applications, Technical Sales Liaison, Solution Architecture, Network Design, Architecture, & Security, Vulnerability Assessment & Management, Systems Engineering, TCP / IP, Data Privacy, Cloud Computing, Marketing Strategy, Budget Management, Consultative Sales, Social Media Marketing, High-Impact Presentations, Security and Technical Advisor: I have a strong experience and knowledge in the technology and security areas, I can provide the needed expertise to better direct technical needs, giving indication for cost effective, solid and efficient solutions. Project Management: with a solid background with project delivered with success in different areas I can provide a key support to drive customer projects to success. With a Microsoft Solution Framework background and PMI solid knowledge mixed with communication skills at any level i can lead the project group and it's stakeholders to achieve the desired goals. Business Developement and Marketing: With a deep knowledge of the extended EMEA technology market needs a focus on worldwide security I can drive business developement to a solid and reliable growth being able to relate with all the stakeholders, from production to sales and channel and, of course, customers.