How to Prepare for a CISO Interview:

CISO Interview Questions

Join Dr. Cole today as he goes through the steps you must take to prepare for your interview
as a CISO.

Here is what you need to know to ace the interview: If you want to be a world class CISO, you must own the interview by understanding the business, take control of the first 3 minutes, and speak the language of the executive.

Also, know the business, how do they make money, and what is their competitive advantage?

Have a world class CISO mindset, not a security engineers mindset.

Good luck out there!

In this episode:

• 0:15​ How to do an interview
• 0:35​ You don’t need a lot of experience because a CISO is a new position
• 2:55​ When you get the interview, you need to own the first 5 minutes
• 3:28​ What I do when I am interviewed on television
• 5:25​ Prepare for an interview by finding out the financials of the company
• 7:13​ What you are showing the interviewer on your first question
• 7:29​ What not to say in an interview for a CISO position
• 8:25​ How to be authentic
• 10:14​ But don’t be the smartest person in the room. Check your ego at the door
• 11:09​ Always know what is the company’s business and how do they make money?
• 13:49​ The importance of being able to scale and shift quickly
• 17:03​ How you know you don’t (yet) have the CISO mindset
• 17:36​ What differentiates the business from the competition?
• 19:04​ What can have the biggest impact on the business?
• 19:54​ Security engineers make this mistake that a CISO doesn’t
• 20:31​ Review