Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

A Chief Information Security Officer or office (CISO) is responsible for creation and executing the information security strategy or policy (information security policy](informationsecuritypolicy.md) within an organization. Information security has many technical aspects, but a CISO must also manage stakeholders within an organization, and be able to defend the importance of certain measures.

Responsibilities

That is why CISO is a broad role, and has many points of attention in various areas, both technical and business related.

• Drafting of information security policy, ICT guidelines, and security plans
• Registering security incidents and implementing measures
• Securing information security in software architecture
• Supervising and performing audits in the field of
• Penetration tests (pentests)
• Software
• Source code
• Software development processes
• Business processes

• Infrastructure

• Continuity management, to ensure continuity in the IT landscape
• Following trends and developments in the market, and anticipating them: what does this mean for information security?
• Advising the board
• Monitor, status of security, and implement new policies
• Setting up technology to safeguard and monitor security
• Identifying threats by means of threat modelling for security by design
• Risk management
• Reporting on security incidents and the overall security posture of the IT landscape

Division

Given the diverse range of tasks, we see that the role, depending on the size and complexity of the organization, is divided over different people and roles, or departments:

These roles are:

• Techincal Information Security Officer of office]

• Buiseness Information Security Officer of office

• Chief Information Ifficer of office

Our platform and services

We can fulfill the role of CISO, TISO, CIO or BISO, or support you in this, possibly assisted by our CaaS platform.