Average North American CISO pay now $565K, mainly thanks to one weird trick A survey of nearly 700 CISOs in the US and Canada has found their pay has risen over the past year to an average of $565,000 and a median of $403,000, with the top 10 percent of execs pulling in over $1 million. (That's about £426,000, £304,000, and £754,000, respectively.) The data showed that by far the most effective way …
That has to be a response from only the most wealthy companies in the world.
I do all the work of a CISO and make less than 100k, I see job postings for Sr CISO for 100-250k
Got some great scammers out there milking their companies.
I'm ready to walk, not due to money, but stress, and another 300k wouldn't' change that. But, maybe I would hire someone to help me.. but its not happening.
Chief Information Security Officer. It's sometimes also CSO (Chief Security Officer). When you already have a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) but they don't know about security, you need another person. What they actually do varies a lot. Sometimes, the C?O people are actually doing some task related to the company. Sometimes, they're just management, so the CISO doesn't actually know about security, they're just the person to whom the security managers report. So while I can expand the acronym for you, I can't actually explain what these people are doing because they're probably doing different and mostly incomparable things for their salaries. Generally the only commonality is that if they get hacked very badly, that's the person who gets fired. Whether that makes sense is also highly variable.
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