What other careers can you pursue?

This role is often looked at as the pinnacle of cybersecurity leadership roles, as individuals in this role might be operating with and be peers with individuals in other CxO roles.

A career as a CISO means that you have mastered the ability to understand the business, its risk drivers, and its vulnerabilities, and you can design mitigation programs around it. CISOs have a broad offering of careers to consider, including board advisors, other CxO roles, consultancies, vCISOs (either virtual or fractional CISOs), and more. Sometimes, CISOs will leave their positions at mature companies and go back to start-ups as head of information security due to the potential upside of joining an early-stage start-up before it becomes public or acquired.