Cybersecurity Risk Management

Part II: Applications

7 The CISO evolution and impact on goals, processes, and priorities

Todd Fitzgerald

The social progress, order, security, and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security, and peace of all other countries. Pope John XXIII, 1881–1963

7.1 Introduction

The information security discipline has grown substantially over the past thirty years, evolving into a ‘profession’ previously reserved for technical staff buried deep in the computer operations area, when the concept of a ‘security perimeter’ was the state of play. While security controls have been managed since there have been computers, dating back half a century, information security was not a focus area beyond ...