Life Inside the Perimeter: Understanding the Modern CISO

Nominet’s Life Inside the Perimeter: Understanding the Modern CISO report focuses on the external and internal stresses and pressures facing a modern CISO.

This report is based on a Nominet-commissioned survey of 408 CISOs in the UK and US, each overseeing the cyber security of businesses with an average of just under 9,000 employees.

The key findings were:

A quarter of CISOs worldwide suffer from physical or mental health issues due to stress
Almost a third fear for their jobs
Many feel that other board members don’t recognise the inevitability of attacks
More than half lack budget or resources to deal with growing threat landscape

Feeling under-valued and under-supported and under-resourced the report highlights the personal aspects of a role that is growing in importance to the organisation yet.

Only half (52%) of CISOs feel the executive teams value the security team from a revenue and brand protection standpoint. Worryingly, almost one-in-five (18%) believe their board members are indifferent to the security team, or see them as an inconvenience.

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