| | MARCH - 2020ENTERPRISE SECURITY8IN MY OPINIONFIVE WAYS FOR CYBER SECURITY TEAMS TO SUCCESSFULLY ADAPT TO EVOLVING ENVIRONMENTSBy Mike Holcomb, Director - Information Security, FluorFinding ourselves at the beginning of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, organizations are working towards transforming their businesses to take advantage of the latest technologies and solutions, more and more of which are becoming connected to enable new functionality by sharing data. Companies today are evolving at an ever-increasing rate and will only continue to do so. While most company leaders will agree that ensuring cybersecurity across the business is important, security requirements will very rarely slow or stop a company's forward momentum in digital transformation.As IT and cybersecurity professionals, it is our responsibility to position ourselves to best protect our organizations, clients, and employees from cyber risks that are introduced in an ever-expanding connected environment as this new technical and digital revolution continues. Here's a compiled list of five ways you can help support your company's changing technological landscape while strengthening its cybersecurity posture:1. Always Be Prepared to Adapt (and Then Adapt Some More)Start by understanding that the company is changing and it will continue to change. Cybersecurity teams can often seem to be at the mercy of the winds of change, especially as companies rush to transform with the latest and greatest technologies. Not only do new systems bring new capabilities, but they can also bring new regulatory, cultural, and security concerns. One only needs to look to GDPR to see how companies have had to evolve their security, and privacy practices, not to mention how they will need to continue to evolve these practices as other global privacy laws continue to evolve.Security leadership must grow a positive mindset that change is here to stay and determine an overall strategy that takes into consideration the uncertainty of the future while helping support the company in its latest digital innovation and at the same time, accounting for potential roadblocks including cybersecurity concerns.2. Never Say NeverBuilding off of the idea of always being ready to adapt, we need to ensure that we are able to support the business in achieving its goals--as securely as possible. When the company's leadership launches a new initiative, it is necessary to support the business in making that new initiative or project as successful as possible without being considered a roadblock. Realistically, the initiative or project will happen regardless--with or without the security team's involvement. Keeping this in mind, we want to be at the table as early in the development of the project to ensure that the project is delivered on time, under budget AND as securely as possible.3. Always Be Looking for New Vulnerabilities and RisksWith new systems and applications come new vulnerabilities. Not only are there new risks introduced to the environment with new systems, but there are also vulnerabilities that come into being when connecting systems which were once independent of each other. In
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