Questions to ask your CISO
Because the CISO is the focal point for cybersecurity, the following questions help you determine if your CISO is leading your cyber resilience effectively. For CISOs, this is a helpful way of assessing this for yourselves.
- How do our strategy and roadmap address our business priorities?
- What is our residual risk, and how do we measure it?
- What are our major black swan events?
- What is the potential financial loss following a cyberattack?
- What is the potential loss following a data breach?
- How do we measure our ROI?
- How do we monitor improvement?
- What is our response when a cyber incident or data breach happens?
- How do we recover associated costs?
In the next part of this chapter, we include bonus segments for our CISOs. The segments include tips and advice for aspiring CISOs. They are also good recommendations for C-suite executives to read while trying to leverage further knowledge on cybersecurity and to...