Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 48 | Page 28

TRENDING
A lot of resource and budget will be invested in the coming
24 months in the name of transformation and there are huge cost savings and business improvements to be found . there is no general consensus around how best to do this . A lot of resource and budget will be invested in the coming 24 months in the name of transformation and there are huge cost savings and business improvements to be found . This is a once-in-acareer architectural transformation opportunity and it ’ s imperative that outcomes are not jeopardised by internal land-grabs , unnecessary bureaucracy and politics , or a simple lack of collaboration between professionals in network and security roles .
• 38 % plan to look for candidates outside of the cyberskills or IT markets and reskill , while 30 % intend to move staff from networking , helpdesk and other internal teams .
Neil Thacker , CISO EMEA at Netskope , said : “ Two items really stood out for me from our research findings . The first is the universal intention among European organisations to transform network and security architectures . The second was that despite this goal being shared by 99.5 % of CIOs and CISOs ,
“ Leaders seem to be saying they understand that their teams need to unite behind shared goals , but they need to ensure they eradicate the political divide that many organisations see across their IT and security teams today . SASE can be successfully implemented by separate network and security teams as long as they collaborate , but there remains a real risk that teams will be frustrated by disparate network and security systems that don ’ t provide a future-proof architecture that supports the overall company vision ,” said Thacker . p
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