“What definitely popped [from the survey results] is how tough the job finally ends up being for CISOs who work in that $1 billion to $5 billion vary,” Kakolowski of IANS mentioned in an interview. “What we see after we put collectively the job satisfaction knowledge, knowledge about their job abilities, certifications, and compensation is they’re at a really difficult transition level inside the enterprise. They’re typically handled — as in smaller organizations — as extra practical, technical professionals.”
However because the group grows, the administration group turns into extra complicated, the enterprise calls for develop into extra complicated. So, he concludes, CISOs at small enterprise-sized companies want to begin taking a extra strategic function in the event that they wish to develop into extra practical enterprise executives.
Nevertheless, he cautions that some organizations will count on CISOs to make that transition at completely different phases of their careers, and a few companies is probably not prepared for a CISO to make the transfer. That’s the place constructing relationships with senior administration will assist.