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What is the best Customer Data Platform (CDP) Software?

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Bloomreach

Tealium AudienceStream CDP

Salesforce CDP

Adobe Real time CDP

Other (please comment below)

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How often does your organization conduct vulnerability and risk assessments?

Threat & Vulnerability Management Governance, Risk & Compliance Risk Management

Quarterly

Twice per year

Annually

Vulnerability and risk assessments are ongoing activities.

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Where do you typically find new products for your IT initiatives?

Vendor/Product Recommendation

Upper management

Procurement

Google

DZone

Business consulting groups

Peer recommendation

Other

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At your company, what is your primary method for handling global email opt outs?

End-User Services & Collaboration

We rely on users to submit opt out privacy requests (DSRs).

We collect a user’s preference through our website’s consent banner.

We gather individual email opt outs through our email service provider and manually aggregate preferences internally.

We don’t currently have a method for universal email opt outs.

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When was the last time you had to fire someone on your team?

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This quarter

3-6 months ago

1 year ago

2-4 years ago

5-9 years ago

Over 10 years ago

I have never had to fire someone on my team.

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The CISO is to blame for an insider breach. Thoughts?

Security Strategy & Roadmap Threat & Vulnerability Management Internal CXO Relationships

Strongly agree

Agree

Neutral

Disagree

Strongly disagree

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How are your employees collaborating with third parties? (partners, vendors, contractors, etc.)

Third Party Risk Management (TPRM)Applications & Platforms End-User Services & Collaboration

Providing access to private apps (on premises or in private clouds)

Communicating and sharing with enterprise messaging apps (i.e. Slack and Microsoft Teams)

Share documents or folders via cloud drives

Communicating and sharing with email

Informal communications/Shadow IT (i.e. SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, personal email, etc.)

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What is your preferred BI software?

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Microsoft Power BI

Tableau Desktop

Dundas BI

Sisense

Zoho Analytics

Other (please list in the comments)

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Do you have controls in place to protect your virtual machines from hyperjacking attacks, in which bad actors target the hypervisor with malicious code?

Threat & Vulnerability Management Risk Management Virtual Infrastructure

Yes

We’re currently implementing these controls

We’re currently exploring solutions

Other (please specify)

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Have you inventoried your API footprint?

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Yes

We have plans to inventory our API footprint

Other (share in the comments)

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We are already using multiple modules of Crowdstrike Falcon. Have you used CS Falcon for IT in production and, if yes, what are your experiences?

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Ioannis AligizakisCISO at Generali Hellas in Insurance (except health)4 months ago

Overall, we've had a great experience. It works well across platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux). The GUI can be a little cumbersome to navigate as not all the web pages are consistently laid out and they are constantly adding ...read more

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Endpoint Protection and Utilization of E5 Features: - Do you use Microsoft Defender EDR for Endpoint EDR? If not, what product do you use (e.g., CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, CarbonBlack)? - If you have Microsoft E5 licenses, are you utilizing all features as your primary and only solution for each domain (e.g., Endpoint protection, Information protection, vulnerability management)? Or do you have other solutions in place either alongside or in place of the included capabilities in E3/E5?

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Ioannis AligizakisCISO at Generali Hellas in Insurance (except health)3 months ago

Hello,
Couple of quick comments, happy to get on a call if you want to talk more thoroughly.
-- We have a MSFT E5 and use InTune for MDM and endpoint protection (antivirus/malware), Cloud Application security to restrict ...read more

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What is size (how many team members) and critical functions (e.g. SOC, GRC, etc.) of your cyber security organization and the reporting line?

People & Leadership Security Strategy & Roadmap

Ioannis AligizakisCISO at Generali Hellas in Insurance (except health)3 months ago

I think the answer to this is going to vary wildly from organization to organization. We have the the CISO office, Security Architecture and Integration, GRC, and SOC for 35 FTE. This does not include vendor partner support, ...read more

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When considering a new CISO role, what are your red flags and green flags? (For instance, what signs do you look for to indicate the organization values the security function/your role in the business?)

People & Leadership Security & GRC Security Strategy & Roadmap

Ioannis AligizakisCISO at Generali Hellas in Insurance (except health)4 months ago

One of the ways to check whether an organisation values the security function is to see where in the organisation the CISO role sits and whom the CISO reports in to. A red flag would be if the role reports into the Head of ...read more

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How do you build an “ownership mindset” on your team? Is it possible to train people to think like this, or is it an innate quality you have to hire for?

Relationship Management Culture & Values Mentoring & Coaching+1 more

Ioannis AligizakisCISO at Generali Hellas in Insurance (except health)5 months ago

I believe that public recognition goes a long way with making folks feel their input is valued and essential to driving team outcomes forward. I also make an effort to tell people specifically how their projects, meeting ...read more

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What methodologies or frameworks (like NIST CSF, CMMC, etc.) are you using to assess and track your cybersecurity maturity level?

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Ioannis AligizakisCISO at Generali Hellas in Insurance (except health)a year ago

we use CSF to assess and track cybersecurity maturity level

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What is the best Customer Data Platform (CDP) Software?

How often does your organization conduct vulnerability and risk assessments?

Where do you typically find *new products* for your IT initiatives?

At your company, what is your primary method for handling global email opt outs?

When was the last time you had to fire someone on your team?

The CISO is to blame for an insider breach. Thoughts?

How are your employees collaborating with third parties? (partners, vendors, contractors, etc.)

What is your preferred BI software?

Do you have controls in place to protect your virtual machines from hyperjacking attacks, in which bad actors target the hypervisor with malicious code?

Have you inventoried your API footprint?

We are already using multiple modules of Crowdstrike Falcon. Have you used CS Falcon for IT in production and, if yes, what are your experiences?

What is size (how many team members) and critical functions (e.g. SOC, GRC, etc.) of your cyber security organization and the reporting line?

When considering a new CISO role, what are your red flags and green flags? (For instance, what signs do you look for to indicate the organization values the security function/your role in the business?)

How do you build an “ownership mindset” on your team? Is it possible to train people to think like this, or is it an innate quality you have to hire for?

What methodologies or frameworks (like NIST CSF, CMMC, etc.) are you using to assess and track your cybersecurity maturity level?

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Awards

Content Ioannis is Following

What is the best Customer Data Platform (CDP) Software?

How often does your organization conduct vulnerability and risk assessments?

Where do you typically find *new products* for your IT initiatives?

At your company, what is your primary method for handling global email opt outs?

When was the last time you had to fire someone on your team?

The CISO is to blame for an insider breach. Thoughts?

How are your employees collaborating with third parties? (partners, vendors, contractors, etc.)

What is your preferred BI software?

Do you have controls in place to protect your virtual machines from hyperjacking attacks, in which bad actors target the hypervisor with malicious code?

Have you inventoried your API footprint?

We are already using multiple modules of Crowdstrike Falcon. Have you used CS Falcon for IT in production and, if yes, what are your experiences?

What is size (how many team members) and critical functions (e.g. SOC, GRC, etc.) of your cyber security organization and the reporting line?

When considering a new CISO role, what are your red flags and green flags? (For instance, what signs do you look for to indicate the organization values the security function/your role in the business?)

How do you build an “ownership mindset” on your team? Is it possible to train people to think like this, or is it an innate quality you have to hire for?

What methodologies or frameworks (like NIST CSF, CMMC, etc.) are you using to assess and track your cybersecurity maturity level?

Where do you typically find new products for your IT initiatives?

Where do you typically find new products for your IT initiatives?