
The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is responsible for the organization’s cybersecurity policies and initiatives.
With cyber threats having grown manifold over the last few quarters, it falls on the CISO to double up as a security head as well as a great trainer and policymaker for the company. With this kind of significant responsibility, CISOs today need to be a little extra of everything – more intuitive, more agile, and faster with actionable decisions.
Here are a few factors that help CISOs to be more effective in their day-to-day activities across the organizations.
The Ability to Clearly Communicate Business Risks and Hence Priorities
CISOs, cyber teams, and their partners will not be able to mitigate or remediate every risk that the company faces. Focus is essential, and it should always be on the threats and exposures that are most likely to affect the business’s most important goals.
CISOs must be able to explain to executives and board members how cyber threats could explode into huge business risks. They need to have the ability to share the risks on the ground, in order to get buy-in from leadership and outline strategic priorities around cyber resilience as they communicate threats.
Communication with external auditors regarding the risk to data and intellectual property is often part of the work. First and foremost, businesses must be capable of risk management because they have a fiduciary duty to protect the company as a defender.
Full article: Top 4 Things that Make CISO More Effective