3 Steps To Become A CISO
(Chief Information Security Officer)

In today’s episode of life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole teaches on the 3 steps it takes to become a CISO.

These 3 steps are core focus areas that you need to be successful.

The 3 steps are; the CISO must be equal to the CIO, you must have a single metric of success, you need your version of “5 nines”.

Listen in to today’s episode to dive into these 3 key steps to becoming a successful CISO.

In this episode:

• 0:00 Welcome
• 1:26 Teaching the core focus areas that you need to be successful
• 3:42 You must have somebody in charge
• 4:02 Security is not a component of IT, it is separate from IT.
• 5:24 What I don’t like to see is a CISO that reports to a CIO, I like him to report to the CEO
• 5:47 Sometimes uptime and security are at odds, and the CEO needs accurate information
• 6:09 By 2025, The CIA (Confidentiality/Integrity/Availability) may have their own dept. head
• 8:05 The CISO must be equal to the CIO.
• 9:35 Why CIO and CISO are sometimes at odds
• 11:20 You must have a single metric of success
• 12:14 You need your version of “5 nines”