Author's Q&A: It's High Time For CISOs To Start Leading Strategically - Or Risk Being Scapegoated
Security Boulevard, Tuesday, May 13th, 2025
The cybersecurity landscape has never moved faster - and the people tasked with defending it have never felt more exposed.
Today's Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) operate in a pressure cooker: responsible for protecting critical assets, expected to show up in the boardroom with fluency, yet rarely granted the authority, resources - or organizational alignment to succeed. Many burn out. Some are scapegoated. A few, as we've seen recently, face criminal charges.