To thrive in the cloud era, CISOs must refashion their roles as business enablers, adopt automation wherever possible, and go back to the basics on security hygiene. We’re undergoing one of the biggest transformational changes in IT since the introduction of the personal computer. We’ve evolved from mainframe to the PC client-server era, to cloud computing and mobile. Companies can now spin-up compute and storage resources in minutes and end-users can access information from almost anywhere, including 35,000 feet in the air.