What Savvy Hiring Execs Look For In A CISO Today
CSO Online, Monday, July 15th, 2024
The CISO role is undergoing a sea change, requiring a range of seemingly contradictory skills and experiences. Here's how experts see the role evolving - and how hiring execs assess the blend of 'Mother Teresa and a kamikaze pilot,' as one CIO puts it, necessary to succeed as a CISO today.
Few business challenges today are greater than serving as an enterprise CISO, with its demands to deliver cybersecurity perfection in an environment that rules such possibilities out. Today's CISO must set security policy, with almost no authority to enforce it across business units. Moreover, the CISO must act as a diplomat to those business units and serve as explainer-in-chief to more senior executives, as well as the board of directors, many of whom have zero interest in listening to a security briefing.
Is it any wonder then why CISO job dissatisfaction is on the rise and many are clamoring to split the role?
And yet, there is arguably one task even more difficult than being an enterprise CISO: hiring an enterprise CISO.