CISOs and their teams operate against a backdrop of continuous change in the threat

landscape, information security technology, and business conditions. The mission to

protect critical assets across space and time is further complicated by a lack of direct

control over the people and processes that expose the organization to risk through day-

to-day operations.

In-depth research with hundreds of information security leaders revealed

a common thread among the top performers:

Technical skills, while essential, are not enough.

To deliver maximum impact, Information Security must

engage with the business and practice proactive

organizational engagement.

To drive insight and enable action

on these “soft skills,” IANS has

broken proactive organizational

engagement down into a set of

clearly defined, quantifiable

elements we call The 7 Factors

of CISO Impact.

Our CISO Impact framework provides a

structured, action-oriented approach that

allows you to baseline your performance

and measure progress down to the Factor

and sub-Factor levels as you work towards

b e t t e r p ro a c t i v e o rg a n i z a t i o n a l

engagement.

First step: take the Diagnostic.

The Diagnostic is an online self-

assessment that measures the current

state of your team’s organizational

engagement. Your personal report

provides you with insight into your team’s

strengths and weaknesses, and allows

you to compare the results to those of

your peers.

As you work to improve your skill sets in

each of the 7 Factors, your Diagnostic

results will reflect your progress.

Then, attend

a CISO Impact

Workshop.

The CISO Impact Workshop is a four-hour

deep dive into one of the 7 Factors of

CISO Impact.

IANS-proprietary worksheets will help you

break down your Factor-specific Diagnostic

results into concrete, step-by-step actions

for improvement.

You’ll experience a new way of thinking

about what you do, and walk away with

insights that will influence the way that you

execute your mission.

A CISO Impact Workshop is a collaborative hands-on working session.

Wrap-UpReview lessons

learned and discuss of how improvement

will drive success. Introductions

Get to know your fellow CISOs

Workshop OrientationThe IANS facilitator

describes the workshop context, components and

flow for the day

Solo WorkDocument your team’s skills and processes vs. the workshop Factor.

Presentations & Feedback

Present your workbook

writings and receive feedback from your peers.

Research OverviewA discussion of the

research and structure of the CISO Impact

framework

DiagnosticAn explanation of how the CISO Impact self-assessment tool works

What are the 7 Factors?An overview of the individual

7 Factors of CISO Impact, and a look at how they all

work together to drive success.

Small Group Discussion

Share ideas and challenges with

your small group

9 out of 10 CISOs do not have full command of the facts they need to be truly effective. Why not?

Our research shows that CISOs struggle to identify –

and gain business leader consensus about – their

organization’s most critical information assets, as well

as the risks posed to those assets. What can you do to

change this?

At a recent Factor 1 Workshop, we posed the question:

Factor 1: Gain Command

of the Facts.

“Getting our hands on a prioritized inventory of assets is hard. We can auto-discover all day long but getting to consensus with the business on the impact of loss or compromise…” “The business is asking

for an outlook on the future but modeling skills are scarce.”

“With the threat landscape in constant change we have to revisit risk assessments more and more frequently.”

Participants discussed the challenges …

… and through that discussion, sharedthoughts on how to address the problem.

You’ll walk away with strategies for success in real-world situations. For example,

you’ll learn how to:

• Understand how to find and gain organizational

agreement on your organization’s critical assets.

• When building attacker profiles, consider your biggest

threats. How do you identify them? What signs are you

looking for?

• Leverage existing, accepted business models of loss-

of-availability situations to develop your response

plans.

• Begin first steps to build an inventory of your

information and control assets.