LATEST INTELLIGENCE
90 DAYS
A CISO’S JOURNEY TO IMPACT
HOW TO DRIVE SUCCESS
CISO INTRO BY JEREMIAH GROSSMAN
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Chief. Information. Security. Officer.
The person in charge of protecting an
organization’s information assets. The job
title sounds so simple, even straight forward, and
once upon a time it might have even been an
accurate description of the role.
It used to be enough to make sure all patches
were up to date, network firewalls were in place,
intrusion detection set-up, anti-virus installed, and
everything on the network properly configured,
locked down, and hardened. Being a CISO was
primarily technical in nature, but times have
changed. Realistically, the only thing uncharged
about the CISO job is the title.
Today, the responsibilities and skill-set required
of a contemporary CISO have become much
broader, all encompassing, and far more critical to
the smooth running of the business. CISOs often
require familiarity with new and highly sophisticated
technologies such as Software Defined Networking,
DevOps, Serverless, Containerization, IoT, Virtualization,
Machine Learning, and Next-Gen everything in order to
protect them. Not to mention The Cloud and all of its
many facets.
Then there is an ever expanding attack surface created
by an explosive number of new users, more data, and
more devices needing to be safeguarded. The threats to
the enterprise posed by organized cyber-crime, nationstate
actors, and even hacktivists are very real and an
ever present way of life – 24x7x365. Then many CISOs
have to interact not only with their internal teams on
technical matters, but also with the board of directors,
journalists, regulators, politicians, customers, vendors,
and partners on a wide variety of business level issues.
The role of a CISO is certainly not for the faint of heart,
but the multifaceted demands of the role are also why
many find it so attractive. •
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