Why are CISOs getting the biggest salary increases?

Sooraj Shah
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Growing awareness of information security, lack of leaders with requisite expertise and increased budgets all reasons for jump in wage packets

In a year in which IT investment is expected to grow, the biggest rise in salaries of all IT leader roles in the UK will be for chief information security officers (CISOs). That is according to ...

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