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The CISO Journey: Life Lessons and Concepts to Accelerate Your Professional Development
The book takes readers though a series of security and risk discussions based on real-life experiences. While the experience story may not be technical, it will relate specifically to a value or skill critical to being a successful CISO. The core content is organized into ten major chapters, each relating to a "Rule of Information Security" developed through a career of real life experiences. The elements are selected to accelerate the development of CISO skills critical to success. Each segments clearly calls out lessons learned and skills to be developed. The last segment of the book addresses presenting security to senior execs and board members, and provides sample content and materials.
320 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 16, 2017
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August 12, 2018
The CISO Journey: Life Lessons and Concepts to Accelerate Your Professional Development, author Gene Fredriksen takes the reader on an information security journey.
Fredriksen spent decades as a CISO, and brings his life lessons to the book. The book is made for a person who is on the CISO track, or even a newly minded CISO, looking for guidance along their new journey.
Fredriksen details a number of interesting scenarios, all based on his real-world experience. He then details what happened, including the successes, challenges and occasional failure along the way. He takes a more management focused approach, rather than getting into the heavy technical details. The 10 chapters in the book correspond to what he calls the 10 rules of information security.
A book like this is important in that it is the CISO who often sets an organization’s security processes and technologies on an effective course. By drawing on Fredriksen’s years of experience and research; the reader is better able to define and prioritize the strategic and tactical steps they need to execute on to ensure their journey as a CISO is a smooth.
An important point the book reiterates is that the role of a CISO is not that of a technologist. Rather the CISO is an effective manager, leader and communicator. He observed that technology is an important aspect of information security. But being a good CISO means a lot more than just technical expertise.
The book does a good job of showing to develop and managing an effective enterprise security program. This is not a trivial thing, and that precisely the journey the book helps the reader with.
For those looking to start their path down the road to being a CISO now or in the future, The CISO Journey is a good guide to help you along the way.
Fredriksen spent decades as a CISO, and brings his life lessons to the book. The book is made for a person who is on the CISO track, or even a newly minded CISO, looking for guidance along their new journey.
Fredriksen details a number of interesting scenarios, all based on his real-world experience. He then details what happened, including the successes, challenges and occasional failure along the way. He takes a more management focused approach, rather than getting into the heavy technical details. The 10 chapters in the book correspond to what he calls the 10 rules of information security.
A book like this is important in that it is the CISO who often sets an organization’s security processes and technologies on an effective course. By drawing on Fredriksen’s years of experience and research; the reader is better able to define and prioritize the strategic and tactical steps they need to execute on to ensure their journey as a CISO is a smooth.
An important point the book reiterates is that the role of a CISO is not that of a technologist. Rather the CISO is an effective manager, leader and communicator. He observed that technology is an important aspect of information security. But being a good CISO means a lot more than just technical expertise.
The book does a good job of showing to develop and managing an effective enterprise security program. This is not a trivial thing, and that precisely the journey the book helps the reader with.
For those looking to start their path down the road to being a CISO now or in the future, The CISO Journey is a good guide to help you along the way.
August 18, 2020
Reasonable high level view functions the CISO has to perform and concepts a CISO can leverage to approach their job. Contains enough level of technical detail a CISO of a typical company should care about. I found this book to be much better, clearer than it's peers.
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