He was talking at the recent IBM security symposium in Sydney.

Gooding pointed out some current trends that are further increasing the focus on security.

He said the Cloud is an area that organisations are, in some cases, struggling to adopt. One of the main reasons for that is they are not so comfortable with the security of where their data is residing.

Security within attack sophistication, the consumerisation of IT, especially with the rise of BYOD, as well as data explosion, with the rise of Big Data, is also something that he said top management should consider.

"Senior executives need to understand the connotations of security. The security story is very quickly moving from being an IT based discussion to a business level discussion. Senior executives are going to be more involved in understanding how secure their organisations are," Gooding said.