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CISOs, let’s face it, are a dry breed. But some really know how to raise hell. In a good way. Here are eight skills to, ahem, emulate.
1. Abate - The bad rep security has among people who like to deliver projects on time.
2. Automate – In-house. Because some problems, vendors just can’t solve.
3. Delineate – Isn’t afraid to say “Improving the security of _____, while desirable, is admittedly beyond the scope of this project.”
4. Disappropriate – Surrenders a slice of the security budget for the greater good.
5. Elucidate – Pick a policy. Any policy. Unhesitatingly rattles off the business driver behind it — without uttering the word security.
6. Pollinate – Exports a security engineer to the networking team. Imports a database engineer to the security team. Antonym of Isolate.
7. Resonate – Promotes the flavor of security that blends with the established grain of the business. Antonym of Intimidate
8. Violate – Occasionally does this to a security policy when it just makes sense to.
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