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How are U.S. CISOs Addressing Liability Risk?

New regulations taking effect in the U.S. mean that cybersecurity leaders could face legal liability in the event of an incident. What strategies are they using to protect themselves?

How are U.S. CISOs Addressing Liability Risk?

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What's your take on the idea of having a Chief AI Officer as part of the leadership team?

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What do you do when business unit leaders push back on your SOC’s recommendations?

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Have you ever joined a security organization after it lost credibility within the business (for instance, after a major breach)? What did you do to build it back up?

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What best practices have your IT department found for strategic business stakeholder engagement? How do other departments like to hear from IT (ex. QBRs, monthly reports, collaboration channels, etc)? What do other departments like to hear about from IT in order to facilitate transparent collaboration around strategic portfolio management?

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Can you share your approach to discussing IT spending with your CFO? Any tried and true methods you've developed over the years to effectively communicate business value of technology spending in a way that resonates?

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What's the best way you've found to actually get senior leadership to understand the importance of insider risk management?

Does decision making take longer in a remote or hybrid working environment?

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Security leaders, how are you working with your CIO when it comes to ‘secure by design’ strategies/projects? Are you seeing any progress/benefits come out of those efforts yet?

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CIOs - curious about personal motivation: What inspires you to truly go the extra mile in supporting your fellow executives? Yes, it’s part of the job, but beyond that what have you identified about yourself that are either internal or external factors that will drive you to personally go above and beyond to assist an executive peer?

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Thinking about your org’s overall strategy: does engineering have enough influence on the direction your company takes? Why/why not?

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Have you ever requested a tool upgrade for your engineering team and been turned down by leadership? How did you respond?

Is there a disconnect between security leaders and the businesses they serve?

Yes, most security leaders.29%

Yes, some security leaders.58%

No10%

Not sure2%

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What distinguishes a chief technology officer (CTO) from a chief digital officer (CDO)?

What are some effective ways to get buy-in from leadership to establish your first security PMO?

Agree or disagree: Business unit leaders typically oppose the SOC’s recommendations.

Strongly disagree2%

Agree65%

Neutral18%

Disagree13%

Strongly agree

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Do you train your more technical staff in business communication?

Yes, I coach my staff on how to speak to business leaders49%

No, but we encourage technical staff to develop those skills on their own47%

No, we don’t offer any support in this area4%

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