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A Day in the Life of a CISO
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Receiving a phone call on a Friday afternoon about a potentially serious cyber incident is something that every CISO dreads. Having your heart skip a beat in such a scenario is inescapable.
Whenever a CISO must manage a serious incident, this must take priority over anything else on their schedule.
Imagine if the Lazarus Group, the infamous hacker group from North Korea, which has strong suspected links to the national government, pays you a visit. Lazarus is renowned as an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT38) actor that has a successful track record of attacking payment systems.
Now pause and consider how you would feel as a new CISO, dealing with this in your very first few days on the job. This can, and does, happen, as you will learn in this chapter.
While it is true that there will always be gaps in your knowledge, when you are brand new in your CISO role, there are more unknowns than knowns.
The cyber hackers and researchers...