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90 DAYS: A CISO’S JOURNEY
TO IMPACT
HOW TO DRIVE SUCCESS
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hief. 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.
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Being a CISO was primarily technical in nature, but
times have changed. Realistically, the only thing
unchanged 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,
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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, nation-state 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.
Perhaps the best part of being a CISO job is change.
Every day there is something different going on. The
business is developing new products and services
with new technologies, the attack techniques the
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