Can You Be a vCISO If You’ve Never Been a CISO?

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series Why are there so many vCISOs who have never been a CISO? Isn't it difficult to advise on a role you've never done? Do organizations feel comfortable hiring an inexperienced vCISO as their CISO? Check out this post for the discussions that are the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn. We welcome our guest Steve Tran, CSO, DNC. Thanks to our podcast sponsor, runZero runZero is the cyber asset management solution that helps you find and identify every managed and unmanaged asset connected to your network and in the cloud. Get the data and context needed to effectively manage and secure your environment. Try runZero for free at runzero.com. In this episode: • Why are there so many vCISOs who have never been a CISO? • Isn't it difficult to advise on a role you've never done? • Do organizations feel comfortable hiring an inexperienced vCISO as their CISO? • If the person has the requisite background, why does it matter what the title they had before is?