CISOs End to End Security Operations The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) ensures the end-to-end (E2E) security operations of an organization. Together with their security team, they handle all security operations, enforce policies, and evaluate and address system vulnerabilities to ensure that a company’s information assets are safe from both internal and external threats. This chapter will cover a typical […]
The Path to Becoming CISO Isn’t Always Linear, There isn’t one definitive path to becoming a CISO.
Don’t be discouraged if your career path isn’t listed above or isn’t “typical.” If your end goal is to become a CISO, then you’ve come to the right place. Keep reading for a comprehensive action plan which will guide you from your current role in IT, IS or Cybersecurity and on the path to becoming a world-class CISO.
Source: CATO Networks
Step 1:
Becoming a CISO is About Changing Your Focus
The 5-Step Action Plan to Becoming CISO – Powerful Guide
Making The Shift from Security Engineer to Future CISO
Becoming a CISO
The most common mistake that security engineers make when looking to become CISO is focus. To be successful as a security engineer the focus is on problem hunting. As a top-tier security professional, you must be the best at identifying and fixing vulnerabilities others can’t see.
How to Think and Act Like a Future CISO
While security engineers identify problems, CISOs translate the problems that security engineers find into solutions for C-suite, the CEO and the board. To be successful in the CISO role, you must be able to transition from problem-solver to a solution-oriented mindset.
A common mistake when transitioning to CISO is by leading with what’s most familiar – and selling your technical competency. While understanding the tech is crucial when interfacing with the security team, it’s not the skillset you must leverage when speaking with C-suite and boards. C-suite and boards care about solutions – not problems. They must feel confident that you understand the business with complete clarity, can identify cyber solutions, and translate them in terms of business risks, profit and loss. To be successful in securing your new role, focus on leveraging cyber as a business enabler to help the business reach its targeted growth projections.
The Skillset Necessary to Become a CISO
Translate technical requirements into business requirements
Brief executives, VPS, C-level, investors and the board
Understand the business you’re in on a granular level
(The company, its goals, competitors, yearly revenue generated, revenue projections, threats competitors are facing, etc.)
Excellent communication: Send effective emails and give impactful presentations
Balance the risk between functionality and security by running risk assessments
Focus on increasing revenue and profitability in the organization
Focus on a solution-oriented mindset, not an identification mindset
Step 2:
Getting Clear on the CISO Role: So, What Does a CISO Actually Do?
Getting Clear on the CISO Role
Learn The CISO’s Role and Responsibilities (R&R)
The CISO is essentially a translator between the security engineering team and C-suite.
Step 3:
Set Yourself Up for Success in the Role: Measure What Matters
Set Yourself Up for Success
What you measure in your role will ultimately determine your career success. Too often CISOs set themselves up for failure by playing a zero-sum security game.
This means any security incident = CISO gets fired = No one wins
But successful CISOs know that cybersecurity is a delicate balancing act between ensuring security and functionality.
100% security means 0 functionality, and vice versa
Strategic CISOs understand this and set themselves up for success by working with the CEO and board to minimize exposure and establish realistic KPIs of success.
Establishing Your Metrics of Success in the CISO Role
What makes CIOs so successful in their role?
A single metric of success: 5 9s.
This allows CIOs to focus on the R&R necessary to achieve this goal.
Suggested CISO KPI & KPI Setting Process
Run an analysis to see how many attempted attacks take place weekly at the organization, to establish a benchmark.
Provide an executive report with weekly attack attempt metrics (i.e., 300.)
Create a proposed benchmark of success: i.e., preventing 98% of attacks.
Get management signoff on your proposed KPIs.
Provide weekly reports to executives with defined attack metrics: attempted weekly attacks + prevented.
(Ensuring security incidents are promptly reported to C-suite and board.)
Adjust KPIs as necessary and receive management signoff.
Step 4
Mind the Gap: Bridge Your Current Technical and Business Gaps
Recommended Technical Education
GIAC / GSEC Security Essentials
CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professionals)
OR CISM (Certified Information Security Manager) Certification
OR CISA (Certified Information System Auditor) Certification
Recommended Technical Experience
At least 3-5 years in IS, Cybersecurity, Networking or IT with a strong security focus
Recommended Business Education
An MBA or equivalent business degree, or relevant business experience
CPA or accounting courses
Recommended Business Experience
Approximately 3-5 years of business experience
Business Operations, Business Management, SOC Manager, or roles that demonstrate your business, management and leadership acumen
Recommended Understanding Of:
Industry security standards including NIST, ISO, SANS, COBIT, CERT, HIPAA.
Current data privacy regulations, e.g., GDPR, CCPA and any regional standards.
Step 5:
How to Get a CISO Job with Limited or No Previous Experience
It’s the age-old dilemma – how do I get a job without relevant experience? And how to I get relevant experience without a job?
Take On a Virtual CISO Role at a Friend or Family Member’s Small Business
Offer 3 hours of virtual CISO service a week.
In exchange, ask for 3 recommendations a month and to service as a positive reference.
Can you receive mentorship from an existing CISO?
Do friends, family or former colleagues know any CISOs you can connect with? Start there.
Reach out on LinkedIn to CISOs and invite them to coffee or dinner.
Ask them if you can meet up and receive mentorship over dinner once a month (they pick the location, and you pay.)
Remember: It’s a numbers game. Don’t get discouraged after a few “no’s” or a lack of responses.
Getting Your First CISO Job: Your Action Plan for Career Success
Applying For Jobs
Your resume has one and only one goal – to get you the interview.
Week 1:
Send out 20 resumes for CISO jobs with your existing resume
How many respond and request interviews (within 2 weeks)?
If you get under a 50-70% success rate, you need to revise your resume.
Your goal is to repeat this process until you get a minimum of 10 positive responses for every batch of 20 resumes you send out (giving recruiters 1.5 – 2 weeks to respond.) Be ready to adapt and adjust your resume as many times as necessary (using the defined process above,) until you hit your benchmarks of success.
Revising your Resume for Success
If you’re not hitting a 50-70% interview rate on your resume, it’s time to revise your resume.
But what do you change?
The Most Common Mistakes Found on CISO Resumes (Don’t Fall into a Trap) Your resume should not only highlight your technical abilities but your business acumen.
Review the strategic skills highlighted earlier and emphasize those (in addition to any other relevant educational, professional, or career achievements.)
Have you briefed executives and boards?
Have you given effective presentations?
Have you created risk management programs and aligned the entire organization?
Do you lead an online forum on Cybersecurity best practices?
Think of ways to highlight your business and leadership savvy, not just your de facto technical abilities.
The Interview Rounds
The CISO interview process is generally between 5-7 interview rounds.
Remember: The goal of your first interview is only to receive a second interview. The goal of your second interview is to receive a third interview, and so on. Be prepared for interviews with legal, finance, the CEO, CIO, HR, and more.
You’ve Got This: The Road to Landing Your First CISO Role
Abraham Lincoln once said, “the best way to predict the future is to create it.” And we hope this guide gives you a running start towards your new and exciting future as a CISO. We believe in you and your future success. Good luck! And feel free to forward this guide to a friend or colleague who’s hunting for a new CISO role, if you feel it’s been helpful.
Life After Landing the Coveted CISO Role
Congrats! You’ve Been Hired as a CISO
You’ve Been Hired as a CISO
You did it. You’ve landed your first CISO role. We couldn’t be prouder of the hard work and dedication that it took to get you to this point. Before you begin in your new role, here are a few best practices to guide you on your way to career success.
Ensuring Your Success in the CISO Role: Things to Keep in Mind
After speaking with 1000s of CISOs since 2016, it’s important to keep the following in mind:
Your Network Security Architecture Will Determine Your Focus and Impact
No matter the organization or the scope, your CISO role is dependent on meeting if not exceeding your promised KPIs. So, you’ll need to decide, do you want a reactive or a proactive security team? Do you want your team to spend their time hunting and patching security vulnerabilities and mitigating disparate security policies? Or devoted to achieving your larger, revenue-generating missions through cybersecurity? Accordingly, you’ll need to ensure that your network security architecture minimizes your enterprise’s attack surface, so you and your team can devote your attention accordingly.
To achieve this, your team must have full visibility and control of all WAN, cloud, and internet traffic so they can work on fulfilling your business objectives through cybersecurity. Otherwise, your function will revert to tactical, instead of focusing on serving as a business enabler through cybersecurity.
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How to Become a Successful CISO: Advice from Amit Spitzer
Before You Begin: Why Do You Want to Become a CISO?
The first step to becoming a CISO is getting clear on why you want to become one. Whether you’re planning to be a CISO at a disruptive technological company or a paper manufacturing facility, the underlying role and responsibilities of the CISO are ultimately the same: protecting the organization from bad actors who are trying to get their hands on sensitive data. If reading this description got your heart beating faster, then security is the right domain for you. Within security, the difference between a C-level security professional (a CISO) and other security professionals is the vision. A CISO envisions how she or he will impact the company’s goals and milestones, contribute to the company’s interests and protect its assets. While this keeps many a CISO up at night, it is also exciting and exhilarating, since you are involved in major company milestones, like IPOs. Are you ready to actively participate in these types of business activities? If the answer is ‘yes’, you’re in the right CISO mindset.
Starting Your CISO Journey: Taking a Hands-On Approach
In the past, CISOs from legacy enterprises focused on building the organization. This first generation of CISOs was not involved in technologies. Instead, they set the stage for today’s CISOs, who are in the trenches and taking a hands-on technical approach, while also contributing to business-related goals, like their predecessors.
Such deep technological experience is gained by building yourself from the bottom-up. While a CISO is a C-level position, a good CISO will still be passionate about learning and understanding technologies. This means learning all the specifics of threats and risks and how to mitigate them. You know you’ve succeeded when you’re able to swap out all members of your team.
At the same time, a good CISO also needs to be involved in business aspects like growth, revenue, quarterly sales, etc.
Maintaining the Balancing Act Between Security and Functionality
The built-in challenge between Security and Business departments revolves around how to ensure an apt layer of security while maintaining business operational agility. Let’s face it, there is no ideal solution or global truth for answering this challenge. If the pendulum swings too far in one direction, either business or security, the risks will be too high or the business won’t be able to function, and the board might as well close the company.
In the past, the “block everything” approach was commonly implemented by companies. First generation CISOs piled up security solutions that blocked any technology or traffic that could potentially be a risk. But in a fast-growing startup that needs to be agile, this approach could quickly become the kiss of death to the business.
Instead, it is best to understand that there is no security without sales and there are no sales without security. A CISO and the security teams are here to serve the business and be growth enablers. This means understanding that every security decision made can impact the company and its development processes and therefore needs to be taken carefully.
When making decisions, I recommend building a decision tree that displays various routes of decision-making and their business outcome. Let’s think of an extreme example. If a CISO needs to determine whether or not to approve Zoom, some of the negative business outcomes of prohibiting Zoom could be:
Impacting internal communication
Hindering communication with external entities: customers, vendors, partners, etc.
Spending more IT resources on finding and procuring a different communication solution
Taking up employee resources for implementing and training on the new communication solution
On the other hand, the responsibility for understanding the risks of new technologies and tools is the CISO’s domain. When implementing a solution, don’t settle on visibility through advanced monitoring capabilities. You and your team need to be able to track incidents and mitigate them before they become breaches with a significant blast radius.
Goal-setting, Roadmap Creation and KPI Planning
A CISO’s goals and KPIs are derived from their main mission: protecting the organization from threat actors who are attempting to access the company’s assets. This means different things in different organizations, which makes it hard to create a global benchmark for CISOs.
For example, a KPI in one company could be to reduce the percentage of clicks on phishing emails from 5% to 3%. But in another, phishing emails are not a prominent attack vector, so such a KPI would not be considered a high priority.
I recommend you build and approve your CISO goals, roadmap and KPIs with your leadership team and board. This serves two purposes. First, ensuring that these metrics are aligned with business needs. Second, evangelizing the CISO’s role and responsibilities, and therefore creating a higher chance for you to succeed.
Tips for Getting Hired as a First-time CISO
Finding a first-time CISO role can take some time. Here’s how to make yourself stand out with recruiters and CEOs who are reviewing your CV, comparing you to other applicants or considering you for a first-time role:
Become an expert – Specialize in a security or organizational aspect and make yourself the go-to person for that field. This could be a certain application or how a practice is implemented in an organization. This becomes a strong driver for organizations to hire you and want to include you in their organization.
Build confidence in your abilities – Create a sense of trust in your abilities to handle various situations, in your technological capabilities and of your business acumen. By doing so, you will be the person who is handed opportunities when they arise.
Combine technology and business capabilities – Build up your business experience by taking a business-oriented approach. Don’t be afraid to hop on customer calls, answer customer questions and participate in cross-departmental brainstorming sessions where commercial questions are discussed. You can also become involved with marketing and sales processes to help them streamline their processes.
Take projects from idea to execution – Find an idea that can help the business and bring it to execution. This includes research, building rapport with colleagues, resource allocation and project management. Comprehensive project management will not only show off your leadership skills, it will also help you hone your combination of technological and business capabilities, to help you build yourself up for the role.
Next Steps for Future CISOs of Tomorrow
Your CISO journey might not be the same as your colleagues’, or it might be a textbook career path from security professional to CISO. Either way, your unique characteristics as a CISO are what will make you stand out, not how you got there. By being enthusiastic about what you do, finding creative ways to solve problems and constantly maintaining an understanding of tech and business growth, you will be able to lead security and make the best decisions for your company, which is the real indicator of success.
Credir :Amit Spitzer
Amit Spitzer is the Chief Security Officer at Cato Networks. With 15 years of experience in the world of Networking and Cyber Security, Amit has served as ControlUp’s CSO and also has worked at Dome9 (acquired by CheckPoint), ClickSofware (acquired by Francisco Partners and SalesForce), and for the Israeli Government (gov.il). Continue reading The 5-Step Action Plan to Becoming CISO – Powerful Guide
The Global CISO Forum was launched on 26 May during GEC Media’s Security Symposium 2021. Anushree Dixit, Global Head Content & Strategic Alliances, GEC Media Group announced the launch of the forum. Dr Erdal Ozkaya, Management Member of Global CISO Forum gave a live overview of the Forum.
Global CISO Forum community aims to unite security leaders across the globe, who are active in, or interested in security policy, technology, standards, certification, success story and programs to accelerate the thoughtful adoption of security best practices across regional as well as global level.
The vision of the forum is as follows:
Building an effective cyber security culture
Securing the support of individual execs will help to build momentum behind cultivating a cyber security culture
Addressing the challenges of building a security team
Strategising staffing based on models, budget, and organisation goals
Identifying talent gaps
Knowledge through success stories
Industry specific insights and sharing of best practices
Dr Ozkaya said the forum is built for the cybersecurity community to help them network and collaborate. “We are better together,” he said while giving an overview of the forum. He also took the audience through a tour of the website.
Launch of Global CISO Forum announced during GEC Security Symposium
Global CISO Forum Launch by Dr Erdal Ozkaya
About Global CISO Forum OUR MISSION
Bringing the Cybersecurity Community together, to help each other and network
The role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) requires a combination of technical and soft skills, such as business acumen, leadership, communications and relationship building. Additionally, CISOs must adopt a continuous approach to learning and up-skilling in order to maintain pace with the cyber threat landscape and new technologies. It is expected that CISOs show innovation and imagination in conceiving and delivering cyber security strategies for their organisations.
CISO Responsibilities:
A CISO is appointed to provide cyber security leadership and guidance for their organisation.
The CISO within an organisation is typically responsible for providing strategic-level guidance for their organisation’s cyber security program and ensuring compliance with cyber security policy, standards, regulations and legislation. They are likely to work with a Chief Security Officer, a Chief Information Officer and other senior executives within their organisation.
The CISO oversees their organisation’s cyber security program and ensures their organisation’s compliance with cyber security policy, standards, regulations and legislation.
The CISO regularly reviews and updates their organisation’s cyber security program to ensure its relevance in addressing cyber threats and harnessing business and cyber security opportunities.
The CISO implements cyber security measurement metrics and key performance indicators for their organisation.
The CISO coordinates cyber security and business alignment through a cyber security steering committee or advisory board, comprising of key business and ICT executives, which meets formally and on a regular basis.
The CISO coordinates security risk management activities between cyber security and business teams
Overseeing incident response activities
Contributing to business continuity and disaster recovery planning
Developing a cyber security communications strategy
Working with suppliers and service providers
Receiving and managing a dedicated cyber security budget
Overseeing cyber security personnel
Overseeing cyber security awareness raising
Global CISO Forum -Community who is better together 2021
What is a CISO A CISO, or Chief Information Security Officer, is primarily responsible for an organization’s cyber security initiatives. CISOs are technologists, who can participate in high-level initiatives as business strategists. CISO’s ensure that IT systems comply with security and regulatory requirements. In summary a C(I)SO is the top Cyber executive of an organization. […]
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A CISO, or Chief Information Security Officer, is primarily responsible for an organization’s cyber security initiatives. CISOs are technologists, who can participate in high-level initiatives as business strategists. CISO’s ensure that IT systems comply with security and regulatory requirements. In summary a C(I)SO is the top Cyber executive of an organization. The Role CISO requires a combination of technical and soft skills, such as business acumen, leadership, communications and relationship building.
WHAT EXACTLY IS A CISO ?
Before we dive deep into the nuances of cyber chiefs’ career paths, it’s important to understand the nature of the role. So here is the 6 Facts you need to know about CISO role :
Trusted “security” advisor – As a CISO you need to translate technical matters into the language of the business – helping non technological executives and boards understand the technical matters and help them make risk-informed decisions confidently
Strategist – As a CISO, you need to get involved setting goals, determining actions to achieve the goals, and mobilizing resources to execute the “prioritized” actions which needs to be tightly linked to businesses strategy.
Leader – As a CISO you need to have leadership skills not just to build an inspired and bonded diverse team but also set an example as a role model to create culture of constant learning, innovation, and active collaboration.
Modern Marketer –Modern marketing is the ability to harness the full capabilities of the business to provide the best experience for the customer and thereby drive growth. As a CISO you need to evangelize cybersecurity capabilities to regulators, client prospects, insurers, and business partners — helping win new business, lower cost of capital, and maintain the license to operate.
Change agent – CISO’s should be able to create a cyber culture where everyone in the organization understand cyber risks and help you to mitigate them
Influencer – CISO’s should be able to influence critical stakeholders to support the cybersecurity transformation.
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How to Become a CISO
There is no direct path to the CISO role. While this is true, its really important to hire the right talent. Being a CISO used to be a hard core cybersecurity role, however, the function of the CISO involves much more business leadership and risk management.
Today, a CISO must be able to help executives at C-suite level to understand risk as it is about bits. CISOs in any enterprise organization must-have skills to be able explain security for non techies, build and maintain critical relationships and communicate at both senior and operational levels. Soft skills are critical to evangelizing security initiatives and celebrating wins, which need to be expressed as business outcomes.
Soft skills are critical to evangelizing the agenda and celebrating wins, which need to be expressed as business outcomes. The CISOs who can develop those skills can ‘sell security’ to their peers and other business line executives. So who can become a CISO ?
Experienced techies, such as cybersecurity architects, network security engineers, or IT Security Managers
An experienced technology risk manager
A CIO or technology leader with extensive experience building high performing teams, driving digital transformation, and sitting on executive committees
Who should not become a CISO
As a trusted security advisor in the past, I met many CISO’s who had no clue about cybersecurity, and unfortunately those CISO’s needed the most help . CISO’s should not be just hired based on experience in the company, or for just being a program delivery manager. CISO’s are much more then just a delivery manager , politician or someone who is network well to get the “hot” seat which pays well. Mark my words, the organizations they follow tis path will have ex CEO’s which blame interns for using weak passwords. ( Read the news article here : https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/26/politics/solarwinds123-password-intern/index.html )
I met many CISO’s depending on our “advisory” or they were great leaders but had no clue of “what was exactly happening in cyber landscape”
Areas of focus for a CISO
CISO Responsibilities
Some of the day to day tasks of CISO’s are :
Security Operations
Real-time analysis of immediate threats, and triage when something goes wrong.
Cyber-risk and Cyber Intelligence
Keeping abreast of developing security threats, and helping the board understand potential security problems that might arise from acquisitions or other big business moves.
Data Loss and Fraud Prevention
Making sure internal staff doesn’t misuse or steal data
Security Architecture
Planning, buying, and rolling out security hardware and software, and making sure IT and network infrastructure is designed with best security practices in mind.
Identity and Access management
Ensuring that only authorized people have access to restricted data and systems.
Program Management
Keeping ahead of security needs by implementing programs or projects that mitigate risks—regular system patches, for instance.
Investigations and Forensics
Determining what went wrong in a breach, dealing with those responsible if they’re internal, and planning to avoid repeats of the same crisis.
Governance
Making sure all of the above initiatives run smoothly and get the funding they need—and that corporate leadership understands their importance.
CISO Responsibilities:
A CISO is appointed to provide cyber security leadership and guidance for their organisation.
The CISO within an organisation is typically responsible for providing strategic-level guidance for their organisation’s cyber security program and ensuring compliance with cyber security policy, standards, regulations and legislation. They are likely to work with a Chief Security Officer, a Chief Information Officer and other senior executives within their organisation.
The CISO oversees their organisation’s cyber security program and ensures their organisation’s compliance with cyber security policy, standards, regulations and legislation.
The CISO regularly reviews and updates their organisation’s cyber security program to ensure its relevance in addressing cyber threats and harnessing business and cyber security opportunities.
The CISO implements cyber security measurement metrics and key performance indicators for their organisation.
The CISO coordinates cyber security and business alignment through a cyber security steering committee or advisory board, comprising of key business and ICT executives, which meets formally and on a regular basis.
The CISO coordinates security risk management activities between cyber security and business teams
Overseeing incident response activities
Contributing to business continuity and disaster recovery planning
Developing a cyber security communications strategy
Working with suppliers and service providers
Receiving and managing a dedicated cyber security budget
Overseeing cyber security personnel
Overseeing cyber security awareness raising
CISO : Cybersecurity Leadership Demystified by Erdal Ozkaya
My new book will , which is planned to be published in 2021 will be a desk reference book for CISO’s and everyone who wants to be CISO….
As CISO – especially in a new organization – you need to balance between a Cybersecurity guru and business acumen. Of course you will need to start creating a cybersecurity strategy – or revise it if it exists – creating a budget , build your team but also spend time o manage the expectations of your stakeholders.
Do you know what are you doing in your next 100 days Do you know all your assets , crown jewels – are they reflected in your 100 days plan ?
What is your Incident Response Plan? Are you ready to recover from a cyber attack ? Did you asses the organization and presented the finding to the board?
Are you up to date ? Did you prioritize the essential 10-15 critical few key controls, are they tested and ready for coverage and maturity?
What is your scope? Are roles and responsibilities defined in writing and assigned to accountable executives and their teams ?
Do you have a measurable cyber-resilient culture change program in place ? Don’t forget its CISO’s priority to work with the CEO/ Board and create a cyber culture organization wide , with Assume Breach in mind
Do you know your key customers ? Did you start to reach them out and build / strengthen relation?
Create / define your partners ! Leverage new innovations
CERTIFICATIONS
While certifications are good to show what you know, keep in mind that certifications don’t make one a stronger professional. Certifications won’t turn a CISO candidate from analyst to C-suite dweller overnight. But what they can do is offer expertise across the many areas CISOs must have basic knowledge of, if not in-depth expertise
SANS Leading Cybersecurity Change , Build a Security based culture
SANS Security Leadership Essentials for Managers
Based on a study by Digital Guardian 53 of the Fortune 100 CISOs held the CISSP (certified information systems security professional by (ISC)²) certification and 22 held the CISM (certified information security manager by (ISC)²) . The top five certifications held by Fortune 100 CISOs include CISSP, CISM, ITIL, CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor by ISACA) and CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control).
In Summary :
The CISO is the guardian of the organization, who build the cyber strategy be the advisor to the board and who is still a technical executive. CISO is also known as CSO (Chief Security Officer ) and VP of security.
The demand for business-centered technical CISOs will continue to grow, as having the right CISO will provide assurance to companies their strategic business partners, regulators, and customers that their cybersecurity capabilities are robust and fit for purpose.
And I for sure recommend you to aim to be a CISO as data breached soar, so will CISO’s paychecks.
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