Hired for One Job, Judged on Another: The CISO’s Real Problem
Industry surveys have long put CISO tenure below that of other C-suite roles, and part of the reason is a double standard. During recruitment, the focus is technical depth, security experience, and leadership. But when budget season arrives and the board weighs a leader’s performance, the lens is cost, growth, customer trust, and brand protection.
Many CISOs feel this acutely. They came up through security, or through risk and compliance, and that is where they are fluent. Their board is not. It wakes up thinking about cost, growth, and customer commitments, and a security leader who cannot connect their work to that language will be seen as important, but rarely as strategic.
Some of this comes down to how the job has been defined. For a long time, a CISO’s success has been measured by proving a negative, by showing that nothing went wrong. That is an impossible assignment, and...
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