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All Hazards: Taking Leadership to a New Level

Our Special Report on all-hazards security management (AKA convergence) sees opportunity and inevitability

By Derek Slater

Skepticsand there are manyhave a list of Why Nots: cultural rifts, differing skill sets, terminology barriers, salary gaps. This special issue of CSO constitutes an in-depth examination of holistic security management and whether those Why Nots can, and should, be overcome. Senior Editors Todd Datz and Sarah D. Scalet put the screws to a score of convergence advocates. We challenged them to prove the payoff in concrete terms (see "The Payoff," Page 24). We grilled them on the stumbling blocks and the pain points experienced as they brought together various security functions (see "The Pain," Page 29). And we dug in for an in-depth case study of a big utility company (see "Security 2.0," Page 34) undertaking a particularly ambitious organizational convergence effort.

These are CSOs who have guided convergence efforts in the real world, and the arguments they presentcombined with trends in technology and the threats facing the corporate world todaycompellingly make the case that convergence, properly defined, is inevitable. And worthwhile.

Better security. Better risk oversight. Lower cost. Why not, indeed?

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