Once considered the executive most likely to nip a plan in the bud, the chief information security officer (CISO) is quickly becoming the person most likely to help make things happen. Case in point? Arthur Lessard, SVP and CISO for Universal Music Group (UMG), positions himself less as the barrier for the music giant's business line executives and more as a go-to guy for helping UMG's various music companies and labels achieve what they want to do. "The role has really changed in the past 18 months," he says. "It used to be mostly about IT security, but [it is] making more of a shift to a business focus. That's more of what I do. We have to recognize that security is a business decision and we can't make those decisions without spending a lot of time with the businesses themselves."
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