CISO excellence recognised at ITWeb Brainstorm CISO Awards

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The article highlights the inaugural ITWeb Brainstorm CISO Awards, which recognised leading cyber security executives in South Africa. It names winners from the public and enterprise sectors and frames the awards as a way to elevate the strategic role of CISOs. The piece also stresses the growing importance of cyber security leadership in business continuity, compliance, digital transformation and public trust. It mentions AI as a rising factor in both attacks and defence, with CISOs pushed to use automation and improved analysis to keep pace. The article also notes the involvement of Cisco and Splunk as sponsors, reinforcing the software and security ecosystem around the event.

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