In the cybersecurity space, there’s an interesting debate surrounding whistleblowers – are they troublemakers or heroes? In an ideal situation, the role of a whistleblower in cybersecurity, also known as cyber-whistleblowing, is simple: to serve as a watchdog who identifies and reports potential security breaches, vulnerabilities, or unethical cybersecurity practices within organizations for swift rectification.
While the role sounds straightforward, it’s often riddled with complexities and perceived differently by different organizations.
In the cybersecurity circle, Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) understand that the role of a whistleblower, although judged to be in the best interest of the public, can strike a dent on the organization’s image.
In the eyes of many CISOs, CEOs, or a board of executives, the whistleblower is perceived through different optics. Some see the whistleblower in cybersecurity as an ethical, compliant personnel whose concern is to correct the wrong practices of organizations in relation to data privacy and compliance, as well as encourage a sort of checks/balances in the system to avert arbitrary use of technology and access to sensitive and non-sensitive data.
Others might perceive the whistleblower as an alarmist, informant. and a selfish individual whose actions can either be fuelled by self-gratification – a means of gaining the attention of the organization due to unresolved grievances against a superior or the organization as a...
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