How To Talk So Your CISO Will Listen
DARKReadimg, Friday, August 4,2023
Tailor your business project proposal to suit the language your company's CISO speaks, be it business, technical, or compliance. Do your research first and gather support from around the company.
All chief information security officers are not created equal. Like the rest of us, each has their own areas of expertise and their own interests. And these differences could have a major effect on how they respond to your request or idea.
When cybersecurity was considered a technology issue, CISOs tended to have IT backgrounds. This hasn't been true for quite some time, however, as enterprises digitize, and the legal and business ramifications of security breaches can have a tremendous impact on other areas of an organization's operations.
Before you approach your company's CISO, it's important not only to do your research about the project you're proposing and to marshal support from elsewhere in the company - critical for success with any new endeavor - but also, especially, to understand which type of CISO you're dealing with.