Knowing Your CISO: Reducing Risk And Bolstering Trust
FutureCIO, Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
One of the three principles of high-performance IT (HPIT) is to build trust on a foundation of security, privacy, and resilience. As a CIO, executing your strategy will be much easier if you unleash the talent of the person who plays an outsized role in building a trusted business: your chief information security officer (CISO).
Understanding CISO persona
Depending on your HPIT strategy, which recognises that every organisation is unique and that a one-size-fits-all approach to IT doesn't exist, you will need different things from your CISO. However, you don't always have the luxury of hiring, or even managing this CISO - in fact, only 33% of security leaders report into technology. Your best bet will be using your CISO's strengths and complementing their weaknesses. In order to do that, you will need to have a clear understanding of the CISO persona.