Chief data safety officers (CISOs) are being paid higher than ever, extra more likely to be an govt — or report on to an govt — and have increasing obligations. But tight safety budgets proceed to be a serious problem.
General, the highest cybersecurity skilled is doing nicely at massive firms and has confirmed their worth however regularly has to work to hyperlink safety to enterprise alternatives moderately than prices, in response to two surveys printed this week.
The common CISO at massive US firms — these with income of $1 billion or extra — has a present compensation of $532,000, together with base wage, bonuses, and fairness advantages, in response to survey knowledge printed by cybersecurity consultancy IANS Analysis on Might 29. Growing obligations include the excessive salaries, with CISOs now typically charged with assessing enterprise threat, product safety, and digital technique.
General, the position is evolving rapidly, says Nick Kakolowski, senior analysis director at IANS.
“By way of being valued by the group, CISOs are doing fairly nicely, however there’s nonetheless a lot uncertainty within the market about what the CISO position’s boundaries really are — and what the job does and would not embody — that we see a substantial amount of variability, and that creates satisfaction points all through the trade,” he says. “After which on the funds aspect, what we’re listening to increasingly … is they will typically get approval for spend if that spend is tied on to a enterprise progress initiative.”
