“What actually 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 stated in an interview. “What we see once we put collectively the job satisfaction knowledge, knowledge about their job abilities, certifications, and compensation is they’re at a really difficult transition level throughout the enterprise. They’re usually handled — as in smaller organizations — as extra purposeful, technical professionals.”
However because the group grows, the administration crew turns into extra complicated, the enterprise calls for turn into extra complicated. So, he concludes, CISOs at small enterprise-sized companies want to start out taking a extra strategic function in the event that they need to turn into extra purposeful enterprise executives.
Nonetheless, he cautions that some organizations will count on CISOs to make that transition at totally different phases of their careers, and a few companies might not be prepared for a CISO to make the transfer. That’s the place constructing relationships with senior administration will assist.