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Why CISOs Fail, 2nd Edition
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Why CISOs Fail, 2nd Edition

by Barak Engel
March 2024
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
4h 55m
English
CRC Press
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DOI: 10.1201/9781003302759-10

It is time to turn our attention to everyone’s absolutely favorite topic—security compliance.

I can faintly hear that grunt of satisfaction even as you settle happily in your chair.

It seems that, increasingly, there is no single more effective tool in the CISO’s arsenal to utilize in getting projects funded than by raising the spectre of potential non-compliance.

It’s the WMD of Information Security.

CEOs and boards are increasingly finding themselves with a rising and quaintly conflicting sense that

  1. Their business is at risk from an ever-increasing threat that they do not understand.
  2. The person telling them this—be they the CISO, the compliance manager, or whomever else owns this “thing”—is clearly ...
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