Cybersecurity is turning into a social phenomenon. Investor interest, public pressure, employee demands, and governmental regulations are strengthening the incentives for organizations to track and report cybersecurity goals and metrics within their environmental, social and governance (ESG) efforts as a business requirement.

Gartner says traditional culture improvement efforts focusing exclusively on awareness fail to facilitate certain behaviour. In the coming years, a key theme for security and risk management (SRM) leaders is the increasingly distributed ecosystem that has led to a loss of direct decision-making control.

In this PodChats for FutureCISO, we are joined by Alex Lei, VP and GM for APJ, Proofpoint, for his take on how organisations improve cyber risk management outcomes in distributed ecosystems.

1.       Briefly provide a state of data protection today among organisations across Asia.

2.       What are prevailing cultural practices that are hindering better outcomes when it comes to data protection?

3.       Gartner says traditional culture improvement efforts that focus exclusively on awareness are failing to facilitate secure behaviour and have led to loss of control amid an increasingly distributed ecosystem. Specific to Asia, do you agree with this assessment?

4.       Can you recommend strategies or bpractices to improve how organisations can improve data protection outcomes for the company in today’s distributed ecosystem?

5.       What needs to happen to facilitate your recommendations?