While these technical skills are certainly important, we're also now looking more holistically at candidates to test their abilities to think critically and creatively as well as uncover new solutions. As we face new and unprecedented challenges in cyber protection, it's critical that cyber leaders hire team members who think outside-the-box, have intellectual curiosity, employ bold thinking, and are natural problem solvers. Protecting an organization against advanced cyber threats requires innovative thinking and techniques; people, process and technology capabilities are needed to properly defend ourselves against sophisticated attackers, such as nation states. Cyber threats will continue to evolve, as will the new techniques described above to enable cyber resiliency. Ariel Weintraub is currently the Head of Enterprise Cyber Security at MassMutual. Ariel first joined MassMutual in the fall of 2019 as the Head of Security Operations & Engineering, responsible for the Global Security Operations Center, Security Engineering, Security Intelligence, and Identity & Access Management. Prior to joining MassMutual, Ariel served as Senior Director of Data & Access Security within Cybersecurity Operations at TIAA where she led a three-year business transformation program to position IAM as a digital business enabler. Prior to TIAA, Ariel held the position of Global Head of Vulnerability Management at BNY Mellon and was part of the Threat & Vulnerability Management practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Interest in artificial intelligence is at a fever pitch, but it can be difficult for corporations to determine whether it's all hype or if the advanced tech can actually improve operations. While a healthy amount of cynicism remains around the technology, it's imperative that organizations begin to think about incorporating it now -- especially because the journey can take as long as 10 years, according to Simon Moss, the global head of AI and automation at the consulting firm Infosys. "The decisions around a cluster of separate but deeply related technology innovations are existential to whether a firm will be strategically successful or not over the next decade," he told Business Insider. Companies are already using AI in a number of different ways, including to help figure out whether store shelves need to be restocked or to cut back the number of applications that human-resources departments must review for open positions. Still, the vast amount of AI efforts fail.