In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole points out the five challenges every CISO faces in order to succeed in their journey. Normally, everyone has the technical and logistical aspects of their jobs nailed down but what they neglect is the mindset they need to fully excel in this field.

In this episode:

  • 1:00– Introduction
  • 2:00– Overcome your fears to complete your CISO journey
  • 3:00– Working on your mindset is equally important
  • 4:00– The Chief in your title needs to be worked on
  • 5:00– Your mindset needs to be in the right place for success
  • 8:00– How CISOs should Communicate
  • 11:00– CISOs as translators
  • 13:00-Treating cybersecurity as business enablers
  • 16:00– Understanding the risk to solve it
  • 18:00– Adapting to the environment
  • 20:00– Be solution oriented