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A Day in the Life of a CISO
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Your very first day as a CISO is a momentous one. This is a role that you have likely aspired to and coveted for some time. You enter the office with a sense of self-doubt and a degree of imposter syndrome. At the same time, you feel a growing weight of responsibility that you carry with this strategically important position.
As you walk around the office on that first day, you are noticed, and staff take a second glance at you. Each step feels weighted – not just by your own physical presence, but by the somewhat invisible architecture of expectation and responsibility around you.
My own credentials were impeccable – years of cybersecurity experience, advanced certifications, and a track record of successful defence strategies. And yet, there I was, feeling like an apprentice on the first day of an impossible quest.
“This is the new boss,” the other staff were perhaps thinking, or there may have been more complex...