Close to two-thirds (62%) of Fortune 500 companies now have a CISO overseeing their security strategies, according to a recent report from Bitglass.
But as more chief information security officers have emerged onto the scene in the past decade, their responsibilities have grown and evolved. Once a more technically focused position, CISOs are increasingly being called on not only to implement security for defense, but also to drive business objectives forward, manage teams that collaborate, and serve as an ambassador for security around the company.
That requires more of those so-called soft skills you don't necessarily get in college.
In fact, when we asked CISOs and other executives to cite what it takes to run a security program today, they hardly mentioned technical skills or a security background at all. Here's what they told us.
The Ability to … Earn RespectJon Hill, CEO of staffing and management firm The Energists: "Some officers are leading departments with dozens of employees, so they must be able to garner respect from their employees and lead their teams to success. [For example], as a CISO, you're often struggling to get budget from the organization. But if you don't get the resources you need, your entire network can end up vulnerable to cyberthreats, and you'll be the one that takes the blame. So you have to be able to communicate the im ..
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