The CISO-COO Partnership: Protecting Operational Excellence
Digital transformation has made cybersecurity preparation part of operational resilience for most organizations. This calls for a new relationship between CISO and COO.
Partnerships in cybersecurity can combine expertise, threat intelligence, and resources to improve defenses, incident response, and resilience.
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Partnership is a collaboration between organizations, or between an organization and a service provider, to share capabilities, information, or responsibility for a defined objective. In security reporting, it commonly means joint defensive work such as threat-intelligence exchange, coordinated research, managed services, or public-private cooperation—not merely a commercial relationship.
Partnerships can improve detection and resilience, but they also create dependencies and shared attack surfaces. A partner may receive network access, credentials, software-update privileges, or sensitive personal and business data; poor authorization, supplier security, or data-handling controls can therefore expose the other party. Effective arrangements define least-privilege access, security requirements, vulnerability and breach-notification duties, privacy and data-use limits, audit rights, and how incidents will be coordinated and access revoked. News about a partnership is most significant when it changes trust boundaries, access to threat intelligence, or accountability for protecting systems and data.
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Digital transformation has made cybersecurity preparation part of operational resilience for most organizations. This calls for a new relationship between CISO and COO.
In partnership with Emirates tech company G42, Microsoft is building the first stage of a 5-gigawatt US-UAE AI campus using Nvidia GPUs.
A multiyear investigation by a public-private partnership has resulted in the seizure of the botnet's US-based infrastructure and indictments for its key players, significantly disrupting a vast cybercriminal enterprise.
The US government worries that Group 42 Holdings, an AI firm based in the United Arab Emirates, could become a backdoor for technology leaks to China.
Our collection of the most relevant reporting and industry perspectives for those guiding cybersecurity strategies and focused on SecOps. Also included: Proactive playbooks, a US-Kenya partnership, and the trouble with shadow engineering.
If current cybersecurity workers only fill 85% of the need in the US, why are so many people still looking for positions? The data from the private-public NIST partnership CyberSeek offers some insight.
The National Vulnerability Database can't keep up, and the agency is calling for a public-private partnership to manage it going forward.
The agreement to enable future sharing of information and experience is part of a spate of inter-country threat intelligence agreements that Israel is signing, as war-related attacks ramp up.
Partnership expands comprehensive approach to software supply chain security.
The collaboration focuses on helping security teams detect and address cloud threats more effectively.
A determination to be taken seriously as a cyber player sees the United Arab Emirates announce a series of collaborations.
Though security leaders and chief data officers both care about data management, their different missions have created a tension that needs addressing.