CISOs Need Backing To Take Charge Of Security
DARKReading, Wednesday, August 2,2023
Unless the CEO and other C-suite executives defer to the CISO's decisions on cybersecurity, is the CISO really running things?
According to a recent report, only five of the Fortune 100 companies count their heads of security when listing top management.
The CISO role and its relationship to clout and influence have always been a dance with the corporate old guard. Does the CISO truly have the authority to stop a line-of-business executive from doing something risky? And if the CISO tries, will the CISO get backing from the CEO and others?
A recent LinkedIn discussion initiated by Derek Andrews, director of cybersecurity operations and incident response for a large nonprofit who he said he would rather not identify, encapsulated the fears quite well.