Today’s CISOs have a far wider range of responsibilities than their predecessors as heads of IT security.
The CISO role is no longer purely technical, focused on hardware and endpoint protection and on operations within the organizational perimeter. Today’s CISO is as likely to be involved with software security, cloud applications, security awareness, user training, and many other more.
But updating cybersecurity governance should also go hand in hand with developments in the organization’s approach to risk. Cyber threats are no longer something that can be ignored. To a degree, they even translate into a cost of doing business.
These growing responsibilities are prompting forward-thinking organizations to look again at how the CISO role is organized. In larger businesses, there is a strong case for appointing multiple CISOs in a way that covers business units, geographies, or specific areas such as operational technology or software development.
In this context, it becomes clear that a new business unit is needed: An Office of the CISO
So, should organizations try out new models for the CISO role? It’s becoming clear that a one-size-fits-all approach will not work, a single CISO will struggle to run all aspects of cybersecurity and risk in an enterprise, thus an entire CISO team would be the winning solution.
Office of CISO as a service (CISOaaS) represents the outsourcing of CISO (chief information security officer) and information security leadership responsibilities to a third-party provider. By hiring a third-party provider to manage it’s security program remotely, an organization gains access to staff and resources that are either too expensive and ineffective to hire, or not available in house
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