CISO Leadership

• A LEADERSHIP DISCONNECT. What You Told Us: A CISO Survey. A LEADERSHIP MANDATE. Who Companies Really Want to HIRE: How to Advance Your Career and Have Great Success. The Evolving Information Security Landscape. Business Drivers for Information Security. Security as a Business Function. Security Leadership. The Public Sector CISO: Life In The Fishbowl. A LEADERSHIP EVOLUTION. A CISO Introspection. How Savvy Are You: Can You Get What You Want? Why and How Assessment of Organization Culture Should Shape Security Strategies. Selling Information Security. The Importance of an IT Security Strategy. Extending The Enterprise’s Governance Program To Information Risks. Building Management Commitment through Security Councils. Measuring Security. Privacy, Ethics, and Business. Leading Th rough a Crisis: How Not to Conduct a Security Investigation. Security Pitfalls. Security Leader Horizon Issues: What the Future Holds.

"Contemporary information security is a relatively new specialty that continues to evolve. Even newer is the job title "chief information security officer." As a result, those who don the CISO mantle do so without an established playbook.In CISO Leadership: Essential Principles for Success, a number of experienced and highly successful information security practitioners share their collective experiences—including mistakes. They provide valuable advice for those aspiring to become information security leaders.A common theme throughout the book's 19 chapters is the idea that information security is about more than simply amassing technical knowledge. Rather, it is the combined set of skills that include leadership, team building, communication, risk assessment, and corporate business savvy. Lack of these skills has often resulted in a CISO's premature termination.The book is divided into three sections all centered on the issue of leadership. Part I is titled "A Leadership Disconnect," while Part II "Leadership Mandate" features chapters on fundamental topics, such as career advancement, security as a business function, business drivers, and more. Part III, "Leadership Evolution," covers business savvy, organizational culture, selling security, and more.For those with a forward career path in information security, CISO Leadership is a valuable guidebook. The authors' "war stories" can help you avoid the bumps as you go down that road. The breadth and depth of the experience of the authors makes this a unique book that you can use to further your information security career."—Ben Rothke, Security Management