Over the years, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has evolved into a senior executive role packed with responsibilities, influence and reach – from every corner of the organization, all the way up to the boardroom.

Chief information-security officers (CISOs) have had to adjust their strategies to account for remote working, pivoting from working on routine tasks to working on long-term goals of establishing secure connections for remote situations. Managing business continuity has been the goal, with the patching of remote systems over virtual private networks, handling of those systems’ increased workloads, and monitoring of spiking cyberthreat levels and cyberattackers targeting at-home workers with an array of threats