Leadership: The Real Secret Sauce for the CISO

An interview with global cyber security influencer JC Gaillard

As we get deeper into the third decade of existence of cyber security practices, we take a look back at their evolution throughout the period with Corix Partners founder and global cybersecurity influencer JC Gaillard.

Where are priorities and levers now for CISOs? What should be the ideal profile of a new CISO? And how do you build up a change dynamics where cyber maturity is low?

Where do you see the main management challenges around cybersecurity at the moment?

The short tenure of the CISO continues to generate a vast amount of debate, aggravated by the COVID pandemic and the “great resignation” episode that it is inducing.

Looking beyond its reasons, the short tenure of the CISO raises another question: What do you actually achieve in 2 or 3 years in a complex and transversal field such as cyber security, and in particular in large firms?

One of my readers pointed out that some CISOs work precisely on those patterns because they are hired to put in place specific compliance alignment programmes, and they leave when the job is done, which typically involves those 2 to 3 years…