As a CISO/CSO/Security Manager, you were hired by your organisation to perform a role. How many people go back to the advertisement they responded to and check-off what you are actually doing now, versus what the original role description stated the role would/should be?
I know talking with many people out there that this is one of their biggest issues in their role today – either the role not being as it was promoted/advertised and/or you not having the support to perform the role your were hired to do.
It’s made cynics of so many people in our industry and in a weird way, has also kept people, albeit unhappy in organisations longer, given the fact that there’s a belief that wherever security people go, it will be much of the same…..so at least, “better the devil you know”. This blog is full of posts, (since day 1 about the trials and tribulations of Information Security people) trying to do their job and battling every step of the way for even small gains. I won’t link to these posts….to many but have a search here if you want further references.
I’m not going to go over all the old issues again here. What I am going to put forward is another idea, that at a minimum, may provide Information Security professionals with a sense of worth, accomplishment and within their organisation, a position whereby an organisation can choose to accept professional opinion, views and recommendations – or not, but at least the Information Security professional can rest secure in a position of having at least gone on record from an overarching management, governance and strategic perspective. (The following need not only relate to the most senior Information Security person in the organisation – but anyone who holds to a belief that things should be better than they are now). Read on……
