Effective enterprise cybersecurity has become even more important as organizations extend their efforts in digital transformation, cloud computing, hybrid work and AI technologies. CISOs and others responsible for safeguarding an organization's systems, networks and data need to manage day-to-day threats while also planning strategically for what's ahead. This comprehensive guide to enterprise cybersecurity explains what's at stake and how CISOs and other security leaders can spend wisely and effectively to meet the many challenges that cybersecurity teams face.

When assessing cybersecurity risk, be sure to consider the scope of the project, your organization's specific assets and leadership's tolerance for risk.

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• Char Sample, ICF International

Because security decisions are made based on risk analysis, risk assessment remains an essential element of a cybersecurity professional's toolbox.

The goal is to provide a realistic, comprehensive picture of an organization's presence that extends beyond the IP addresses to all the factors around that, including processes and personnel. The result should be a plan that guides the organization into a thoroughly understood view of their risks and priorities.

Risk is a function of threat and vulnerability. For risk to exist, both threat and vulnerability must concurrently exist. Risk assessment implicitly implies this existence and assumes that something of value must be protected.

The protection of assets -- both tangible and not -- is key in ...