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Internal CXO Relationships

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Strong internal CXO relationships align leadership on strategy and accelerate decision-making. It refers to the collaboration and communication among executive leaders to ensure organizational priorities and vision are unified.

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

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Agree or disagree: Meta should separate the founder role and hire a professional CEO.

Strongly agree14%

Agree58%

Neutral17%

Disagree10%

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What can a CISO do if their authority is unequal to that of other C-suite execs (apart from the CEO)?

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How does insufficient communication impact a transformation initiative?

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What defines a director-level role in IT?

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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 leaders50%

No, but we encourage technical staff to develop those skills on their own46%

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

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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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Have you identified any best practices for communicating the value of a heightened security function?

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Have you been in situations in a new company or role, where you needed to assess the current technical debt, but did not want to appear to be critical of your predecessor? How did you navigate this?

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How often do you report on IT performance and/or explain the business value of IT to executive leadership?

Every Month23%

Every Quarter67%

Every Year8%

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If your org has a CDAO, do you collaborate with them to improve data security? How?

Any tips for getting your leadership’s buy-in for implementing SIEM? What did you focus on to make a strong case for the org adopting a SIEM solution?

CISOs/heads of security - when capacity constraints are getting in the way of your goals, do you generally feel comfortable explaining this to your exec team? How do you approach that convo without potentially inviting doubts about your own capabilities?

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When you’ve entered a new executive role, how have you made an impact quickly?

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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?

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