Companies are under constant threat from cyberattacks and the situation is only getting worse. The number of phishing email messages that were opened hit 30 percent in this year, up from 23 percent last year. Companies don’t benchmark CISOs based on whether their companies haven’t been breached (chances are, they have and don’t know it) Most companies don’t quite figure out how to fairly pay CISOs, whose salaries can range from $500,000 to $2 million. Best CISOs are devising strategies to embed cybersecurity defenses into the foundation of new initiatives.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3073477/why-the-ciso-is-the-hardest-tech-role-to-fill.html