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CISOin’ Ain’t Easy, But It’s a Living
Posted October 28th, 2008 by rybolov
This is an article in Federal Computer week that’s fairly obvious to anybody who’s ever been any kind of security manager in Government: it’s a hard job. Realistically, you have to have such a wide range of skills that it’s hard to find people who can do it all. It’s even worse if you have a couple subpar managers working under you.
I’ve said it a million times, I’ll say it again, in the public sector, a CISO spends 80% of their time doing basic project management and personnel management, and only 20% doing anything that could remotely be called “security”.
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Tags: government • infosec • security
October 29th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Is that 80% akin to keeping your “pimp hand” strong?
October 31st, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Makes me wonder if pimps spend 80% of their day doing project managent and personnel management and only 20% on the actual act of pimpin’. =)