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by abhiminator 915 days ago
>We're paid to find risk and reduce risk.

There's a dedicated department that already does that in most organizations -- risk management.

One could argue that 'cybersecurity' ought to be a component of 'risk management' versus being on its own which only adds to bloated organization structure and increases bureaucratic complexity.

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In some orgs, that is the case. In other orgs, risk management might be a functionally absent, with legal teams being reviewers of contracts and abdicating that role to outside counsel.
Yeah, and my team and larger cyber org was under risk management, until some new exec decided to shift us under the technology org (a decision I do not agree with due to conflict of interest).
At my last shop, we were under Risk, IT, Security, and Compliance, aka RISC.