Opinion
CSOs: Three and Out?
The "State of the CSO 2008" survey results indicate that the position has more staying power than it had in the past.
By Derek Slater
Frankly, if you're in a leadership position and you're just encountering these concepts for the first time, you're quite late. We've been writing about financial measures and communication skills for about six years now. (See, for example, Let's Talk from our first issue in September 2002, and Calculated Risk from December of that year.
But better late than never. The more business-minded security becomes, the less I think we'll see of the three-and-out phenomenon.
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