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CISO Handbook: The how-to guide for agency cyber execs

To help agencies get the cybersecurity talent they need, the Chief Information Security Officers Council has released the CISO Handbook, a new resource for key policies, initiatives, templates and processes to help prepare future cybersecurity executives for their roles and responsibilities for securing federal data and systems. The handbook was released on June 26.

“Breaking the complex conversation of the CISO role and risk management into consumable pieces can only help the community succeed in bringing new talent onboard and meeting our mission needs,” Emery Csulak, CISO at the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services, was quoted as saying in a CIO Council blog post.

The handbook features three main sections and appendices with links and reference documents that provide a systematic overview of the risk management process. To help agencies comply with the Trump administration’s cybersecurity executive order, the handbook “maps example agency policies to specific objectives in the Cybersecurity Framework Core as well as to key NIST…

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