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The Aspiring CIO and CISO

You're reading from   The Aspiring CIO and CISO A career guide to developing leadership skills, knowledge, experience, and behavior

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835469194
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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David J. Gee David J. Gee
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Your Journey to Becoming a CIO or CISO
2. Chapter 1: Starting the Journey to Become a CIO or CISO FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: How to Develop Yourself to Be a CIO or CISO 4. Chapter 3: Executing Your Career Path to Becoming a CIO or CISO 5. Chapter 4: CIO and CISO Interview Tips 6. Part 2: What to Do in the First 90 Days
7. Chapter 5: CIO – The First 90 Days 8. Chapter 6: CISO – The First 90 Days 9. Part 3: Being the CIO or CISO
10. Chapter 7: Moments of Truth (When You Accelerate Your Growth) 11. Chapter 8: Understanding the Pressures CIOs and CISOs Face 12. Chapter 9: CIO and CISO Survival Skills 13. Part 4: What’s Next in Your Career?
14. Chapter 10: Looking for the Next Elevator 15. Chapter 11: Risk Management as a Career Option 16. Chapter 12: What CIOs and CISOs Do in Retirement 17. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix: Index

Exploring a day in the life of a CISO

Just like the CIO, the life of a CISO is also dynamic and challenging. In this section, we will explore the diverse nature of the role and the incredible juggling of hot topics that’s required during the average day. There is rarely going to be a boring, routine day where you will feel that you have complete closure.

How you as the CISO manage yourself is important to your success. The CISO should be calm in a crisis and think logically but also be very action-orientated when bad actors are attacking the company. Let’s see what a typical day looks like for a CISO.

A day in the life of a CISO

There is no such thing as an average day in the life of a CISO. Each day will bring fresh challenges and a potential zero-day vulnerability. The role of the CISO is naturally stressful, as it entails working with a team that has a full remediation change agenda as well as working on external threats that keep increasing at an exponential...

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