Chief information security officers should be regarded as a supporter of business growth and innovation rather than a bottleneck, according to Wells Fargo CISO Rich Baich.

Speaking to ComputerworldUK about the role of the CISO at Palo Alto Network’s 2015 Ignite conference last week, Baich said that security teams can help an enterprise become more agile by feeding into product and service development at an early stage.

“What that means is that — if security is working right — before a product, a partnership or third party is signed, security is part of the cycle,” he said. “You understand the risks, the cost to secure it. You are accepting some risk, but you are going in with your eyes wide open and all of the facts are known.

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