The Heller Report: CISO Attributes: A Checklist for the Board and C-Suite

There is no one criteria for selecting a CISO who will help an enterprise grow. This article from Heller’s CISO experts identifies key qualities for evaluating an executive who will ensure information security is cultural strength and innovation source. Among the qualities: signs of innovation leadership, critical incident experience – and an aversion to communicating through fear. (Read our companion article, “Fifteen Interview Questions to Hire CISOs Who Will Grow – Not Just Protect – Your Business.”)

Without clear data vision and mission statements, an organization’s strategy and execution can become disjointed, leading to frustration, inefficiency and wasted resources. In one of Heller’s most popular articles, Rich Peters, founder of Tongere Partners, explains how the two statements work in tandem. A data vision statement states why an organization cares about its data. A mission statement defines what it aims to accomplish and how.

The first public images from the world’s largest camera, in an observatory on a Chilean mountaintop, are due this week. The camera, called the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, is the centerpiece of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a project of the National Science Foundation and U.S. Energy Department, reported ZME Science. The 3,200-megapixel camera, which can spot a golf ball from 15 miles away, is equipped with a lens that is 1.57 meters wide. Behind it are 189 charge-coupled device sensors that capture images by converting photons to electrons. The camera is designed to take 1,000 exposures of a 3.5-degree swath of sky every night.

Heller was recently retained by the State Compensation Insurance Fund to recruit a Chief Information Officer. State Fund is a provider of workers’ compensation insurance in California. We identified Matt Kulangara for this role. Kulangara most recently served as Chief Information Officer at Woodruff Sawyer. Prior to that, he was the Chief Information Officer for Oregon Mutual Insurance. Kulangara earned a B.S. from Rutgers University and an A.L.M. degree from Harvard University. Best of luck, Matt!