![]() ![]() ![]() RMF Roles and Responsibilities (Part 1) 1. Independent organizations such as Holistic Information Security Practitioner Institute (HISPI) and EC-Council provide training, education and certification by promoting a holistic approach to Cybersecurity to Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), Information Security Officers (ISOs), Information Security Managers, Directors of Information Security, Security Analysts, Security Engineers and Technology Risk Managers from major corporations and organizations. CISOs are often in high demand and compensation is comparable to other C-level positions who also hold a similar corporate title. In corporations, the trend is for CISOs to have a strong balance of business acumen and technology knowledge. Having the CISO reporting to the CIO is nowadays considered a bad idea, because of conflicts of interests and because Information Security reaches far beyond IT systems, into business processes, Risk and even Privacy realm, places where IT is marginal and confined to the role of a commodity. Information Security function is now reputed not anymore related just to IT, but embbracing all the business, so that only 24% of these security chiefs now report to a Chief Information Officer (CIO), while 40% reports to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and 27% to the board of directors. In 2018, in The Global State of Information Security Survey 2018 (GSISS), conducted jointly by CIO, CSO and PwC, 85% of businesses had a CISO or equivalent. By 2009, approximately 85% of large organizations had a security executive, up from 56% in 2008, and 43% in 2006. ![]() Throughout the world, a growing number of organizations have a CISO. Having a CISO or the equivalent function in the organization has become a standard in business, government, and non-profit sectors. IT investigations, digital forensics, eDiscovery.Information technology controls for financial and other systems.Information security operations center (ISOC).Information security and information assurance.Information regulatory compliance (e.g., US PCI DSS, FISMA, GLBA, HIPAA UK Data Protection Act 1998 Canada PIPEDA, Europe GDPR).Disaster recovery and business continuity management.Computer emergency response team/computer security incident response team.Responsibilities may include, but not be limited to: Typically, the CISO's influence reaches the entire organization. ![]()
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