{"id":225286,"date":"2026-03-16T03:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/what-it-takes-to-win-that-cso-role\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:30:21","slug":"what-it-takes-to-win-that-cso-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/what-it-takes-to-win-that-cso-role\/","title":{"rendered":"What it takes to win that CSO role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143208\/what-it-takes-to-win-that-cso-role.html\">What it takes to win that CSO role<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143208\/what-it-takes-to-win-that-cso-role.html\">https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143208\/what-it-takes-to-win-that-cso-role.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-16 03:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.csoonline.com\">www.csoonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI view the CISO position as a business leadership role rather than just a technical one, focusing on people and strategy,\u201d Kirby explains. \u201cThe ability to communicate and translate for a broad spectrum of audiences \u2014 technical, non-technical, business, non-business \u2014 is critical. As a CISO, you need to be able to help people understand the \u2018why\u2019 of what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once viewed primarily as a senior technologist focused on systems and controls, today\u2019s CISO now sits at the heart of business strategy, Kirby says. The modern CISO is also, by necessity, a futurist: forecasting not just threats, but how digital trust, identity, and security will determine which businesses succeed and which fail.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"minimal-business-and-technology-skills-for-cso-candidates\">Minimal business and technology skills for CSO candidates<\/h2>\n<p>The gold standard CSO candidate today has a T-shaped background: deep expertise in one or two domains with broad fluency across the rest of the security ecosystem, Breckenridge explains. Here, three areas stand out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143208\/what-it-takes-to-win-that-cso-role.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What it takes to win that CSO role https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/4143208\/what-it-takes-to-win-that-cso-role.html Publish Date: 2026-03-16 03:02:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4143208-0-47972400-1773644531-shutterstock_2352826863.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225288,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225286\/revisions\/225288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}