“ I have built cybersecurity teams in the past , but Circles . Life has given me the runway to build an information security office from ground zero , which I will be doing for many more years to come ”
— Mohamed Noordin Yusuff Marican , CISO , Circles . Life its internal operations , Circles . Life strives to not only be the best digital telco app , but to also provide many different consumer verticals such as movie tickets , concert tickets and classes in a high quality and flexible way for its customers .
Bringing the conversation back to security , Noordin explains that Circles . Life ’ s information security program has what the company calls its three ‘ CISO pillars of cybersecurity ’. “ These pillars are made up of Cyber Defense , Cyber Governance and Cyber Operations functions . Our Cyber Defense function focuses on the likes of technical penetration testing , to ensure that vulnerabilities are discovered and remediated timely while our cyber governance function focuses on policies and procedures to make sure that we have the necessary cybersecurity frameworks in place and that we are complying with current cybersecurity and data protection regulations . Finally , our cyber operations function protects and defends our infrastructure against cyber threats .”
With this structure in place , Noordin adds that the next element of Circles . Life ’ s information security program is
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