Introduction
There is a lot that goes into maintaining a budget and training as a Chief Information
Security Officer. Being a Chief Information Security Officer you have responsibilities such as
hiring management, training, security, technology, and more. Maintaining all these
responsibilities comes with a budget. There are also repercussions when the balance isn’t
maintained between training and additional cybersecurity technology.
Managing a Budget
Having a plan or an organizer for everything under the budget for a CISO is essential. Human
training is quite important to cybersecurity because human error can cause companies to fall to error or
cyber attacks. Cybersecurity technology is just as important, without a good system there will be many
errors, and everything will be prone to attack even with well trained employees. As CISO I would put
more money toward Cybersecurity technology over training employees. The trade off would be less well
trained employees, but more advanced technology. My reasoning for this is because with a very good
system and technology security even with human error things such as strong firewalls, and other
technology security measures data will be secured.