Grant Schneider explores challenges CISO's and security professionals face regarding external drivers influencing cybersecurity programs.  Highlights include increasing threats, expanding attack surfaces from interconnected devices, and growing consequences of cyberattacks. Key points from the course are:

• Threats are continuously increasing and we continue to interconnect more network devices, personal or professional - however all these connections are another threat surface for a potential attacker
• The consequences of a potential malicious cyber attack has increased and they far greater today than they have been in the past because of our dependencies on technology
• In the past six months, number of organization went from having no policy around AI to at least having something around ChatGpt