CYBERSECURITY GOVERNANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Abstract

This study examines governance and risk management of cybersecurity that facilitates the safe digitalization of companies. Through a mixed-method framework, it operationalizes the NIST CSF 2.0, ISO/IEC 27001, and ISO/kiec 2019 frameworks to policy-as-code, CI/CD guard rail, and constant monitoring, and evaluates its resilience based on a survey of 250 Fortune 1000 leads in security, behind-the-scenes telemetry, and case studies. Quantitative analysis demonstrates that there is a correlation between the maturity of governance and the outcome: rate of incidents reduced by 46 with increasing governance maturity, resulting in reduced breaches (Pearson -0.62). Zero Trust Identity and Access Management (IAM) content reduced unauthorized access by 71% and improved audit success by 33%, and AI-driven Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) pipelines had 92% obliteration, 38% of false positives, and the mean time to react was decreased by 32% to 14 hours. Prisma Cloud and GuardDuty automation decreased configuration drift to 3% instead of 18% and made it possible to minimize the time to complete an audit 61 times. A financial analysis revealed an average 2.3 times payoff on the investments in automation and 2.7 times in finance. The study concludes that identity-based governance, computerized evidence, and AI-based analytics enhance scalability in resilience and compliant digital transformation.