'Cyber security is a dark art': The CISO as soothsayer. (arXiv:2202.12755v1 [cs.CY])

Commercial organisations continue to face a growing and evolving threat of
data breaches and system compromises, making their cyber-security function
critically important. Many organisations employ a Chief Information Security
Officer (CISO) to lead such a function. We conducted in-depth, semi-structured
interviews with 15 CISOs and six senior organisational leaders, between October
2019 and July 2020, as part of a wider exploration into the purpose of CISOs
and cyber-security functions. In this paper, we employ broader security
scholarship related to ontological …

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