Mari-Louise Conradie, Port443

In a world awash in data, cybersecurity risk is universal. But compliance comes at a cost. It’s not something that can be solved with a checklist, nor is it the chief information security officer’s sole responsibility. To be successful, every organisation needs to be both compliant and cybersecure. How does a business know what security measures to put in place when there’s an exhaustive amount of global and local compliance requirements?

According to IBM research, most organisations have to comply with 13 security or privacy regulations, which will need at least 22 employees to manage.