Is the CISO-as-a-Consultant Model Obsolete?

July 6, 2009 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

Daniel Wallace, CISSP, PMP, Information Security Consultant at Grow Forward

Compounding the problem for the consultant CISO in the shorter term is that budgets are under downward pressure while the risk of fraud, insider theft and 3rd party exposure is going up. Longer term the financial crisis has forced firms to re-focus on systemic risk resulting in a revival of top-down Enterprise Risk Management efforts.