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The Cybersecurity Crucible: Unsung CISO Struggles Under Fire

InformationWek, Thursday, May 9th, 2024

While cybercrime makes a CISO's position daunting, board support can strengthen organizational resilience. There are five critical questions the board should ask their CISO to create this outcome.

The chief information security officer has an enormous amount of responsibility. They are accountable for the entire organization's security across its geographical and virtual footprint, day and night. Streamlining a company's many tasks during cyber-attacks is difficult, even for the most experienced CISOs. Additional factors, such as the high demand and low supply of skilled cybersecurity workers and the requirement to keep within budget, exacerbate the many functions, making the CISO's position daunting.

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