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A Day in the Life of a CISO
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The typical CISO would not see their brand as being a change agent. They have traditionally come from information security roles with a strong technology background. Their career has likely grown through network security, systems administration, or perhaps from security engineering roles. This training and experience would have provided them with detailed skills at a technical level. CISOs with backgrounds like this will understand the configuration of cyber controls and how these layers operate.
As cybersecurity has become more mainstream, the demands on the CISO have changed. The kind of knowledge that CISOs coming through traditional routes will have gained is valuable; however, the requirements of the contemporary CISO have morphed.
The profile of the CISO that recruiters are now searching for has the technical skills, but they also have much more. There are some new expectations that are more aligned with driving change.
New CISOs will therefore...