Look around the CISO community, and you’ll find signs of burnout everywhere. Where CISOs aren’t just quitting, you’ll find increasing tension between them and their executives, sometimes resulting in surprising departures. Ply a friendly CISO with their favorite alcoholic beverage and a promise of being off-the-record, and you’ll hear stories that’ll raise your hackles: CISOs prodded to mislead the Board, CISOs summarily dismissed when pointing out security issues, CISOs that other executives won’t talk to, security projects committed and then defunded.
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