The 350 Million Problem: Securing the Businesses No One Else Will

About this episode

In this episode, Joe Levy discusses the alarming statistic of businesses lacking security leadership and the implications for the cybersecurity industry.

Show Description Joe Levy is the CEO of Sophos and a 30-year cybersecurity veteran who has held technical and executive roles across some of the industry's most recognizable brands. In this episode, we dig into a stat that should reframe how the entire industry thinks about its mission: out of roughly 359 million businesses worldwide, fewer than 32,000 have a CISO. That's less than one in 10,000 organizations with a security strategy leader — and it's a number Joe worked with Cybersecurity Ve...

People in this episode

Host: Chris Hughes

Guest: Joe Levy

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• business security
• CISO
• industry statistics
• leadership

Keywords

• cybersecurity
• CISO
• business security
• Joe Levy
• Sophos
• industry statistics
• leadership

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sophos, Cybersecurity

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