To Maximize Their Influence, CISO Need Diverse Skills
Search Security, Monday, November 3rd, 2025
In many organizations today, when the CISO talks, the CEO and board listen. CISOs who successfully rise to the occasion have broad skillsets.
For a long time, the main skill that CISOs needed was the ability and readiness to resign gracefully in the wake of a major cybersecurity incident. Joking aside, early CISOs did tend to have short tenures due to the distressing regularity with which systems were compromised on their watch. The buck stopped with them -- and their jobs often did, too.