Cybersecurity Shorts for Executives: The New Chief Information Security Officer
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Reaching out to an audience of senior executives, George Mason University’s Dr. J. P. Auffret addresses the evolving role of an organization’s top cybersecurity position. The chief information security officer (CISO) is becoming an executive leadership position, calling for knowledge of not just technology, but also of policy, business and leadership.
George Mason University’s Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE) in conjunction with the George Mason School of Business has a research to practice orientation, conducting research on major cybersecurity issues of the day and partnering with government and private sector entities including NSF, DARPA, NIST, Korea Agency for Defense Development, IBM and PwC. We also provide workshops for executives to assist on addressing current cybersecurity challenges, including building cybersecurity programs and fostering cybersecurity leadership and executive engagement.
We would like to thank the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their support on cybersecurity leadership and outreach.
Please contact us at jauffret@gmu.edu to learn more and to explore partnerships.
Learn more at: http://business.gmu.edu/cyber-contact
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[MUSIC PLAYING] JP Auffret: Our view of Mason is that, over time, the chief information security officer role will be an executive role at most organizations. And in fact, we have a view also that there'll be US legislation requiring chief information security officers and government agencies, just like we have legislation for chief information officers. So we're with the cybersecurity field being relatively new. Leadership today comes from a whole range of backgrounds. Some of the leadership is much more technical. Some come from policy. Some have management organizational capabilities. And some have legal backgrounds.
Going forward, as the field becomes much more executive oriented, cybersecurity leadership is going to be and is good executive leadership, leadership that also has capability and insight into cybersecurity policy, the technology of cybersecurity, and the role of good cybersecurity strategically within a corporation. At Mason, we believe there's a leadership gap between the technical teams, and the executive teams, and the boards, and important considerations for leaders that fill this leadership gap are not just technical. They're building teams, engaging organization, and developing policies and approaches. And so the roles themselves are by definition multi-disciplinary and the leadership is multidisciplinary too.
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