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Gartner defines "Effective CISOs" as those who scored in the top one-third of the CISO effectiveness measure.
"As the push to digital deepens, CISOs are responsible for supporting a rapidly evolving set of information risk decisions, while also facing greater oversight from regulators, executive teams and boards of directors. These challenges are further compounded by the pressure that COVID-19 has put on the information security function to be more agile and flexible."
The survey found that the top-performing CISOs meet three times more with non-IT stakeholders than the bottom-performing CISOs.
Highly effective CISOs, the report revealed, can better manage stress and fatigue in the company workplace.
Only 27% of the top performing CISOs feel overloaded with security alerts, compared with 62% of the lowest-rated performers.