Why Cybersecurity Needs to be Separated from IT in Local Governments

"The days of the CISO being completely IT-centric and as such being in a role under the CIO is gone. Managing security effectiveness and risk management transcends IT and has to operate at an executive level so that technical and non-technical decision makers can be armed with evidence-based data in order to make business decisions more effectively and efficiently from an informed position." - Brian Contos, CISO for Verodin