The Volgenau School of Engineering and School of Business have launched the first video of a planned series, which will feature interviews with industry, government and academic experts on current cybersecurity leadership issues.
The series, "Cybersecurity for Executives," is aimed at executives and board members, who are increasingly aware that they must develop strategies and allocate resources for combatting the cyber threat.
In the first video, Mason's Dr. J.P. Auffret addresses the evolving role of an organization's top cybersecurity position. The chief information security officer (CISO) is becoming an executive leadership position, calling for knowledge of not just technology, but also of policy, business and leadership.
The videos, about two minutes each, are being produced with support from a National Science Foundation grant. The grant also provides for the development CISO core competencies and corresponding learning objectives, and industry engagement and collaboration through conferences and workshops for executives, on current cybersecurity leadership challenges and highlighting the strategic imperative for cybersecurity.
Dr. Auffret is the associate director of the Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE) at the Volgenau School of Engineering and the director of the Research Partnerships and Grants Initiative at the School of Business. He works with both schools in a multidisciplinary effort on projects with a research to practice orientation, conducting research on major cybersecurity issues of the day and partnering with government and private sector entities including NSF, Korea Agency for Defense Development, IBM and PwC.