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CISOs often find themselves needing to prioritize the specific threats they need to defend against. In addition, they must take stock of their security strengths and weaknesses so they can focus their efforts on relevant threats.
A major challenge to staying focused is media-driven distraction. CISOs who understand their security posture can ignore the media noise knowing that threat X is not a risk — either because it has been patched or because such an attack is highly unlikely to target an organization of their size or type.
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