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Cyber-risk Management, Security Operations, Managed Security Services
Jon Oltsik is an ESG senior principal analyst, an ESG fellow, and the founder of the firm’s cybersecurity service. With over 30 years of technology industry experience, Jon is widely recognized as an expert in all aspects of cybersecurity and is often called upon to help customers understand a CISO's perspective and strategies. Jon focuses on areas such as cyber-risk management, security operations, and managed security services.
Jon was named one of the top 100 cybersecurity influencers for 2015 by Onalytica and is active as a committee member of the Cybersecurity Canon, a project dedicated to identifying a list of must-read books for all cybersecurity practitioners.
Often quoted in the business and technical press, Jon is also engaged in cybersecurity issues, legislation, and technology discussions within the US government.
Executives and corporate directors have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders and/or owners, so they are ultimately responsible for everything that drives the business, including managing cyber-risk and safeguarding business-critical technology assets. That said, cybersecurity can be a highly technical discipline. This brings up a few questions: Do executives really understand cybersecurity and its role in the business? And as technology further dominates the business landscape, are they investing appropriately in cybersecurity and driving a cybersecurity culture throughout their organizations?
Organizations have been spending regularly on threat detection and response but still can't detect sophisticated threats. And it takes too long to detect and respond to even common threats."
"By aggregating threat detection and response across multiple controls, XDR promises to improve TDR efficacy and streamline operations. This value proposition is too good to ignore, so XDR is getting lots of attention."
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