Best Practices Q&A: Guidance About What Directors Need to Hear From CISOs — From a Board Member
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Best Practices Q&A: Guidance About What Directors Need to Hear From CISOs — From a Board Member
Saved by Chad Hudson
Successful CISOs are specific and transparent about what they will do in their role. They reinforce the reality that security is a team sport. These communications and collaborations are far more important than any technology purchase or deployment.
To improve decision making at this level, the metrics provided by the security team must be risk based and framed in a way that aligns with business drivers.
To determine how you can best tailor your message to your audience, it’s key to understand whether cost or speed is the main driver for your organization. If available, the company’s annual report can help you identify which is the main driver. I personally invested a lot of time in lunch discussions with people like the CFO, CTO, CIO, CEO, and CMO
... See moreIt is not your job as the CIO to be objective; it is your job to tell the story Consider Sheila, a CIO in a media company. On a weekly basis she produces IT status reports to distribute to all of the senior and mid-level managers in the company. First Sheila notes all of the bad news such as server outages, security issues, vendor issues and the he
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