With more than two decades of enterprise security experience, Daniel Schwalbe has seen both how the profession has changed and how the structure of security teams has evolved.
He recounts, for example, how his former security department reported to network operations when he first started there in the late 1990s. Buried deep in IT, he got the sense that “people didn’t want to talk to us.”
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But over the years security moved out from under network operations and into a dedicated CISO office. Security then began to branch out.
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