To date, ZT champions have tended to be CISOs rather than business leaders. Increasingly, though, non-technology executives—particularly those with risk, compliance, and privacy responsibilities—are sponsoring ZT within their organizations. This is an important change, as senior leadership team (SLT) backing is essential to organization-wide ZT success.
Security leaders looking to build executive support should express the ZT strategy in terms of business outcomes, without relying on technical language. Organizations must recognize that compliance, risk management, and privacy are business issues, not security problems. Security leaders who position ZT in terms of its ability to reduce friction and enable agility are most likely to win executive endorsement.
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