R.E.S.P.E.C.T.: The way for CISOs to get and keep it

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2894037/security-leadership/r-e-s-p-e-c-t-the-way-for-cisos-to-get-and-keep-it.html

By Taylor Armerding
CSO
March 10, 2015

If you’ve got a “C” at the beginning of your professional title, you’re at 
the top, or pretty close to it.

That, at least, is the perception of most people below the “C-suite” in an 
organization.

But, there is a hierarchy in the C-suite as well, and the Chief 
Information Security Officer (CISO) tends to be stuck at the low end of 
it, both in influence and respect.

That’s the finding of a survey by ThreatTrack Security, reported in a 
white paper titled, “No Respect: Chief Information Security Officers 
Misunderstood and Underappreciated by Their C-Level Peers.”

More specifically, the survey of 203 C-level executives at U.S. 
organizations employing a CISO found that a large majority (74%) thought 
CISOs didn’t even deserve a seat at the C-level table and viewed them 
primarily as, “a convenient scapegoat in the event of a data breach.”

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