Security News > 2021 > February > Emotional intelligence playing an increasingly important role for CISOs

The increasing importance of emotional intelligence and other skills required to work with different stakeholders are placing new demands on CISOs.

"In a way, technical-only CISOs have become a thing of the past and replaced by a role that's explicitly relied on to address risk in a much broader, holistic way for organizations."

Two-thirds of CISOs interviewed understood the increasingly important role emotional intelligence plays in helping them understand, empathize, and negotiate with people inside and outside their organization - a key requirement given their expanding responsibilities.

Three quarters of CISOs interviewed for the report indicated that their roles have changed from a pure focus on network risk to cover every aspect of technology now being deployed, with the changes being most pronounced to CISOs working in healthcare, manufacturing, and retail.

Two-thirds of interviewed CISOs spent significant amounts of time with external communities of interest, such as CISO roundtable discussions.

65% of interviewed CISOs saw themselves as critical to their business.

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