Have you ever considered starting your own information security consulting firm? Kate Borten, who made the switch from CISO to consultant, offers insights on making a successful transition.
To fill a gap in professional development and educational resources for healthcare information security leaders, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has launched a new offshoot group for healthcare CISOs.
When is it time to make that big move to a new job? And what's the smartest strategy? Matthew Speare of Regions, a bank holding company, talks about how to read and respond to signs that it's time for a major career change.
Working as a chief security officer in law enforcement is much different than filling a security role for a private sector business, says Joshua Belk, CSO at the FBI's San Francisco division, who offers career tips.
Characterizing the state of employment among American information security practitioners, executive recruiter Joyce Brocaglia says, "We are experiencing negative unemployment in the field of information security."
IT security professionals need to put security problems in terms a CEO or board member can understand in order to gain essential resources, Gartner's Paul Proctor says.
Recognizing the security workforce shortage is one thing. Addressing it is quite another. What will it take to truly grow the workforce? Diana Burley of The George Washington University shares her vision.
Letting women make mistakes, as men are allowed to do, could help grow the female IT security workforce from its current level of less than 30 percent. That's a conclusion of a panel of IT security experts assembled by Information Security Media Group.
In the wake of its massive data breach, Target Corp. has hired as its first CISO an executive with information security leadership experience at two of the nation's largest corporations.
Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus is searching for its first CISO following the company's major data breach last year. Security experts weigh in on the attributes of ideal candidates and offer advice for how they should tackle the job.
The word 'security' takes on a whole new level of importance when you take a job in federal law enforcement. Joshua Belk, CSO of the FBI's San Francisco division, offers career insights for security pros.
Conventional wisdom dictates that the high demand for IT security practitioner would cause salaries to rise, perhaps significantly. But a new study by SANS shows only a slight fattening of paychecks for many IT security professionals.
Target needs someone who is up for the challenge of evaluating the entire security landscape of the global retail giant, asking tough questions, making changes to mitigate risk - all to help earn back trust.
In many if not most enterprises, the chief information security officer reports to the chief information officer. After all, enterprises cannot function without IT, and security is a support function to safeguard data and systems. Or is it?
A problem federal agencies face in deploying effective continuous monitoring is that there's just too much guidance, former federal chief information security officer Patrick Howard says.
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