Recommendations for cybersecurity professionals who want to be CISOs – by Mert Sarica 

Passing through all of the obstacles one by one in your career path to becoming a CISO is a bit challenging, depending on the industry that you work for, the culture, and the country that you live in. As Erdal Ozkaya articulates, the inner details of how to become a cybersecurity leader are crystal clear; I would like to touch on different aspects of becoming a CISO with a technical background.

In my opinion, some books and articles on being a CISO underestimate the power of technical skills for CISOs and highlight only the soft skills. To become a successful CISO, you must certainly have leadership, communication, presentation, and many more skills, but at a time where cyberattacks are getting much more complicated and threat actors are becoming much more dangerous and persistent, CISOs should be able to lead and assess their teams to combat such kinds of advanced threats. Therefore...