Why It's Worth Divorcing Information Security From IT

Back in the 1990s, it made perfect sense for security to be an IT function. Corporate networks had a hard perimeter, firewalls were the foundation of IT Security, Kevin Mitnick was the face of corporate hacking, and corporate owned laptops – and Palm Pilots – were a status symbol. These days, enterprise-computing environments are global, borderless, fully mobile, and extremely complex. Despite all this change, the cyber security function has yet to scale and evolve accordingly.