Security profession is growing and broadening into new emerging fields such as social media policy, digital forensics, cloud computing and new regulations. CISO will need to be proficient in writing a technical policy or a vendor management contract and perhaps representing the security team in court proceedings. Having an orientation in law will probably help the CISO look into the future to coherently understand the connection and impact of these regulations on information security issues. The security officer is again dealing with legal issues such as implications of what is being said about the institution on these new channels.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/blogs/your-next-ciso-may-be-attorney-p-788