Risk Management as a Career Option
This chapter will explore an alternative career option that the CIO and CISO most likely have not considered, and you may have discounted this idea as well. My intention in this chapter is to provide you with an alternative perspective and open this path to you as an option.
You will have an opportunity to consider a new trend to have stronger lines of defense across first- and second-line risk functions. This is being driven by cyber-attacks across all industries and increased regulatory scrutiny.
Risk Management is something that the CIO and CISO do every day in their day-to-day role. They must decide where to focus and where to ignore for now. This is a very dynamic process that increasingly requires technical depth. For this reason, the CIO and CISO have battle scars from their experience allowing them to deeply understand technology, cybersecurity, and data, making them ideally suited to consider this alternate career path.
The fundamental...
