CISOs are becoming more proactive in their jobs in a few areas, including threat intelligence, privacy and business initiatives. CISOs have taken risk oversight to the next level by actively monitoring threat intelligence to better understand cyber adversaries and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) CISOs also taking similar active roles with IoT applications, digital transformation initiatives, etc. In other words, organizations are building security into applications and infrastructure rather than bolting it on afterward. The most important qualities of a successful CISO are leadership skills, communications skills and a strong relationship with business executives.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3262984/3-areas-in-which-cisos-are-becoming-more-proactive.html