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by runjake 1203 days ago
> Average tenure for a CISO is lowest of any C suite. You will likely take the hit in the event of a security incident and be fired.

As far as I can tell, this is the actual purpose of a CISO: being the sacrificial goat when an entity experiences a security event that ends up in the news. I say this without any sarcasm.

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> As your company's CISO, the most unkind yet accurate adjective people will ever apply to me is "ablative."

For Corey Quinn's fantastic "security awareness training" thread: https://infosec.exchange/@Quinnypig@awscommunity.social/1097...