What security leadership entails

Security leadership is the basic role of a CISO executive in an organization. As a CISO, all aspects of an organization that affect the security situation of the organization concern you. To play this role effectively, the CISO needs to create and build security awareness in the organization among all staff because they pose one of the biggest threats to the organization's digital assets. Building security awareness entails training and ensuring employees understand the security policies in place and why they need to be there. This will enable them to uphold these policies, hence reducing potential internal threats. The CISO then needs to build a cybersecurity strategy that the security team will follow and on which all security initiatives will be anchored. The strategy will act as a blueprint that determines how security policies are developed and how the business will address security threats and incidents affecting the organization. Finally...