Staffing the CISO office: A call to senior management for some expansive thinking

Staffing the CISO office: A call to senior management for some expansive thinking

We’ve come a long way from just a relatively few years ago in institutionalizing the CISO/CSO mandate across our respective corporate organizational structures. I’ve written here and spoken countlessly of the imperative for CISO/CSOs being granted equal footing as their CIO and CRO counterparts to maximize operational effectiveness and efficiency, not to mention security resiliency; and if that’s not feasible then s/he should have a dotted reporting line to the CFO or COO.

Beyond that, there is a stark security gap that concerns me—one that is more essential and at the same time easier to fix/employ than senior reporting lines.

I strongly advocate and urgently implore corporate management teams to assemble and build a strong and resilient digital security leadership bench within their respective organizations for dual-effect purposes.

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