Senior level jobs in Cyber Security!!!

Some Fortune 500 and Global 2000 corporations are giving their information security head honchos — oftentimes those with military backgrounds — seven-figure pay packages. One company paid a $3.89 million annual salary to fill its CISO position.

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Another company paid a $650,000 salary to fill its CISO role in 2012, and last year they bumped the pay up to $2.5 million for a new recruit in the same position.

If a $1 billion company suffers a breach resulting in a $700 million post-hack market valuation, then how much less is their CISO worth?

The stress level is off the roof because a CISO can be right 99 out of 100 times, and a cybercriminal only has to be right once.” And when the cybercriminal is right, it can be front-page news. Being in the news is not good for a CISO’s career, or resume. At least not if they’re captaining the ship when their organization suffers a high profile cyberattack or data breach.

Originally Published by Cyber Magazine in 2020: Reference and more