Gartner – The CISO Guide for your first 100 days

OutThink is recognised by Gartner as a representative vendor innovating in the security awareness and human risk management space.

You are a CISO, perhaps you are new in the role – how do you start to identify and understand your risks? There are thousands of employees in your business – what are their attitudes and behaviours?

Key Findings:

1. Successful Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are primarily leaders, managers and communicators – not technologists.
   
   
2. A CISO’s success depends on two important achievements: (1) establishing a personal brand of credibility and leadership, and (2) laying the foundation for a defensible security program.
   
   
3. New CISOs struggle when they fail to understand leadership expectations or fail to effectively communicate how security supports business outcomes.
   

Since security awareness training is the one constant touchpoint between the security team and employees at large, it can be the starting point for all forms of security engagement.

If you’d like to learn more about how OutThink can help your organization consistently achieve high engagement and improve knowledge retention through training, get in touch.