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Becoming a CISO: 5 Things You Need to Learn for Peak Effectiveness

In many organizations, it is the chief information security officer (CISO) who oversees efforts to fight threats such as data breaches, ransomware and phishing. In fact, companies with a CISO or chief security officer (CSO) had stronger cybersecurity training programs, according to IDG’s 2020 Security Priorities Study.

If you are a security professional working up the ladder or just starting out in tech and want to know how to become a CISO, here are five things you will need to learn to do:

- Communicate Business Risks and Priorities
- Manage the Human Element
- Master Budgets
- Understand Process Management
- Think in a Strategic Fashion Instead of a Tactical Approach

Gaining knowledge in these areas should prepare a future CISO for success.
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Salesforce and Microsoft Product Managers: How Much Do They Earn?

Product managers at Microsoft and Salesforce have a particularly daunting job: Not only must they handle all the critical responsibilities of the role, including keeping production on-track, but they must do so at enormous scale. Any hiccup can have a catastrophic ripple effect, including massive cost overruns and upset corporate clients.

Microsoft and Salesforce have sufficient capital to pay out enormous salaries to product managers who’ve demonstrated they have what it takes to carry out their jobs at huge scale. Here’s the progression of compensation for product managers at Salesforce as they climb through the ranks. (see the pictures below)

If you’re interviewing for a product manager job at Microsoft or Salesforce (or pretty much any other company), success won’t just come down to your technical knowledge, or even your track record of overseeing the launch and maintenance of apps and services; it’s clear that hiring managers and recruiters also care about “soft skills” such as communication and empathy.

It’s also important to have technical knowledge that aligns with the job at hand. Both Salesforce and Microsoft, for example, produce massive cloud-based products; if you’re applying for a product manager role, extensive knowledge of the cloud (particularly Azure, in Microsoft’s case) is absolute must. You’ll need to demonstrate that you can launch a quality product on time.
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*Leaders in Tech*

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 as an online bookstore. As CEO, he has built it into the largest retailer on the Web, selling everything from groceries to electronics and shoes. Amazon consistently succeeds with risky new ventures, which Bezos credits to tenacity and an obsession with customer needs.

There are many decisions that we make that we can make with math. For those kinds of problems, if you used gut intuition, that would be foolish. But a lot of the decisions that you have to make around consumers are not that kind of thing. You can't put into a spreadsheet how people are going to behave around a new product.
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