On this episode of Life of a CISO, we dive into more ninja tricks to be a world class CISO. The topics for this episode are body language and verbal communication. Watch the full episode to learn the "Ninja Tricks" to have positive, confident body language whether you feel confident or not and how to convince your potential employer that you are a business enabler, and that you can enable that specific business to improve their bottom line.

On this episode of Life of a CISO, the focus is on the most important “Ninja Super Trick” of becoming a CISO: Overcoming limiting beliefs. Learn some of Dr. Eric Cole's techniques and examples that he has done that you can emulate in order to turn limiting beliefs into empowering truths. Watch the full episode to learn the "Ninja Super Trick" and overcome the limiting beliefs in your life, so you can get one step closer to your dream job of being a world-class CISO.

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole shares the why behind creating the book Cyber Crisis. This book is filled with years of research and fact checking from not only Dr. Cole himself, but from his peers and mentors in the industry as well. Listen to this episode for more details on the why behind the book Cyber Crisis.

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole will be sharing part two of his career in being a CISO before there was even a word for it. An important lesson Dr. Cole learned from his career was to be true to himself and not to be someone else. This lesson is what gave him the confidence to start his own business. Listen to today's episode to find out more about Dr. Coles career and learn the secret to how he learned to be true to himself.

Today, Dr. Cole will be sharing his own story of how he became one of the world's first CISO's. How his education and work experience influenced his life and career. In the 1980's Dr. Cole was told that computers and networking would be the future. So he decided to learn both business and computers in college. Dr. Cole learned the most advanced computer systems at the time, and learned that cybersecurity was his purpose in life. Let's open this time capsule together in today's episode.

Join Dr. Cole today as he explores CISO traits and " What is required to be a CISO." Too much experience as a security engineer could hinder your ability to get a CISO position; because in order to be a CISO, you have to think like a CISO. Once you do have that CISO mindset, the next step is to get that first interview. This episode includes ways to get yourself out of a powerless mindset, and into a powerful one, and ways to ace every interview, even if you don’t get the job right away. Watch the episode to find out how you can get that first CISO position!

Join Dr. Cole today as he answers some viewer questions such as:
How do you calculate risk in an organization and communicate that calculation to executives?
Do you have to be an expert in cybersecurity to be a world-class CISO?
How do you get the first CISO position with no experience?    Should I continue my formal education?                                      How do I ace the interview?
Tune in to find out the answers to these questions and more in today's episode of LIFE of a CISO. 

Join Dr. Cole today as he explains why it’s important that CISOs have a seat at the executive table. Executives all have their specialties, and a CISO is also an executive position. As a CISO, you need to communicate how much, financially, the executives can save by strengthening their defenses against attackers. This is high-level executive management. That’s why a CISO is a “Chief” Information Security Officer. CISOs, lets take our seats at the executive table. 

Join Dr. Cole today as he goes through the steps you must take to prepare for your interview as a CISO. Here is what you need to know to ace the interview: If you want to be a world class CISO, you must own the interview by understanding the business, take control of the first 3 minutes, and speak the language of the executive. Also, know the business, how do they make money, and what is their competitive advantage? Have a world class CISO mindset, not a security engineers mindset. Good luck out there!

Join us today as Dr. Cole discusses world class CISO mindset. If you want to be a successful person, whether it’s as a CISO or anything else in life, you have to find your limiting beliefs, and then turn them into empowering truths. Once you find them, you have to become obsessed. Is your mindset aligned with your ultimate purpose?