The CISO's Challenge: Getting Colleagues To Understand What You Do
CSO, Monday, July 28th, 2025
CISOs often operate with significant responsibility but limited formal authority, making it critical to articulate their role clearly. Experts offer strategies for CISOs to communicate their mission to colleagues and customers.
The first-ever CISO, the late Steve Katz, earned the title chief information security officer at Citicorp in 1995 after Russian hackers stole more than $10 million from the financial institution. Thirty years later, this relative late-comer leadership role remains largely misunderstood - and subject to greater responsibility volatility than more traditional and established leadership roles such at CFO.