The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a company is becoming more and more important as cybersecurity threats increase in both frequency and reach. Every business needs to ensure that their CISO is not only concerned with security, particularly when it comes to any IT systems, but will also be responsible for risk management throughout the company. This risk management should take into consideration all the possible threats that could affect their business, particularly those from internal as well as external agents including vendors.
What Does the CISO Role Entail?
It is important that the CISO is part of the C-level of executives in order to be able to both liaise and report to the leaders of a company, and oversee the controls protecting the important critical information and technology relating to the business as a whole. The CISO must be able to implement strategies to protect the sensitive data held by a company and comply with any regulatory bodies that govern the security of that data.
Gone are the days when security just encompassed the installation of firewalls and data encryption. With the increase in sensitive data being held by firms the world over and the…
