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Introducing the Role of The Chief Cybercrime Officer

Can the CISO and CCO work in harmony?

By Matt Cable, VP Solutions Architects & MD Europe, Certes Networks

The TalkTalk data breach in 2015 had big repercussions. With the personal details of 157,000 customers
accessed, including bank account numbers and sort codes of over 15,000 customers, it certainly was not
the largest the industry had seen. However, it resulted in government recommendations that a specific
officer should be appointed with day-to-day responsibility for protecting computer systems from cyber
attack.

In most organizations, this responsibility fell to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), supported
by the CEO, with the main task of strengthening the organization’s cyber security capabilities. While the
role of the CISO is certainly not new, it has evolved over recent years to keep up with the advancements
in the threat landscape. A CISO’s job description is now extremely varied, including managing security
operations, cyber risk and cyber intelligence, security architecture, data loss and fraud prevention,
program management, identity and access management and compliance and governance.

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