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“ A lot of companies I speak with have a huge blind spot on hybrid working security ”
— Vincent Meijer , CISO | Head of Information Security , Ordina
approach might end you up in a never ending and unmanageable situation , I think , because that ’ s going to be too much and really complex . Yet if I look at this change , I can actually remove complexity because I can look at the office environment at the same level as the home environment . I don ’ t trust them , but I only have one scenario to manage . We ’ re not ever going back , I think , to the old situation . We ’ re going to a hybrid kind of model , and then the office becomes a more public environment with a different function – to connect , to socialise , to find each other in person – and that ’ s why my office network is going to look more like my home network .”
Meijer ’ s mantra of building security in , rather than bolting it on , is part of this simplified approach to holistic security . But organisational hierarchies play a role in whether the customer can be sold on the argument . Difficulties arise when security officers are still traditional somewhere in IT and not positioned within the business itself . It ’ s an easier sell when , as at Ordina , the CISO is also an executive position . This important transition to really integrate into the business could take up to five years , he says .
FINDING A PARTNER
Internally , Ordina wants to create value but the same is true of its partnerships . “ You have to seek for partners to be able
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