Draft Version 2.0Last reviewed: July 20142015
Are you a CISO who's new to your institution? Or a veteran CISO who's new to the higher education community? Perhaps you're a CISO or other security professional looking for a peer to touch base with.
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- Actionable Leadership in the Creative Age (Skillsoft white paper)
- Career Development for New and Aspiring CIOs (EDUCAUSE website)
- CISO Job Description Template
- Cultivating Careers: Professional Development for Campus IT (EDUCAUSE Book)
- EDUCAUSE Career Development
- EDUCAUSE Career Advancement Interactive Online Guide
- EDUCAUSE Speaker Concierge
- Executive Presence for IT Leaders (Tom Catalini's "People & Technology" blog)
- Lay Bare the Questions: Leadership Lessons from Close Encounters (EDUCAUSE Review article)
- The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels (book)
- You're in Charge, Now What?: The 8 Point Plan (book)
- HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (book)
- Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion (book)
- The Leader's Checklist: 15 Mission-Critical Principles (book)
- CISO Leadership: Essential Principles for Success (book)
- Information Security Governance Simplified: From the Boardroom to the Keyboard (book)
- The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles From the World's Greatest Manufacturer (book)
- CSO's CISO Executive Career and Leadership Success Guide (compilation of articles)
Mentoring Resources
- Beyond the Myths and Magic of Mentoring: How to Facilitate an Effective Mentoring Process (book by Margo Murray)
- EDUCAUSE Mentoring Program
- International Mentoring Association
- Leadership in Mentoring (Tips for Mentors and Mentees, including "How to Get Started" and "Partnership for Success")
- Mentee Guide: Managing a Successful Mentoring Relationship (University of Washington Career Development resource)
- MENTOR (Note: Although this organization focuses on youth mentoring, they offer several good resources.)
- Mentoring: An Essential Leadership Skill (MindTools article)
- Mentoring Memos (University of Washington Graduate School website)
- Mentoring Resources (University of Washington Graduate School website)
- NCWIT Mentoring-in-a-Box: Technical Women at Work
- Peer Mentoring Resource Booklet (California State University, Northridge PDF)
- SIGUCCS Mentor Guide (PDF)
- University of New Mexico Mentoring Institute
- What Does a Mentor Do? (Collaborative for Gender Equality article)
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- 10 Things an ISO Needs to Know
- 10 People an ISO Needs to Know (i.e., Building Relationships, or How to Social Engineer Your Organizations)
- 10 Things an ISO Needs to Ask Themselves
- 10 Things an ISO Should Not Do
- The ISO Bad Day List
- Foundations of Information Security: Institutional Implications for Safeguarding Data (An EDUCAUSE Executive Brief)
- Key Questions for Information Security: Institutional Implications for Safeguarding Data (An EDUCAUSE Executive Brief)
- 2014 Higher Education IT Workforce Study (ECAR Research Hub)
- 12 LinkedIn Mistakes IT Pros Make (InfoWorld slideshow)
- 12 Terrific Tech and Security-Related TED Talks (CSO slideshow)
- Enterprise CIO Decisions: Security Policies for Next-Generation IT (TechTarget e-zine)
- How to Get a Job in Computer Security (CSO Online article)
- Ideas Don't Sell Themselves: How to Win Support for Your Project, Program, or Proposal (by Christopher Witt)
- Leading Change by Living It (EDUCAUSE Review Online article)
- Next Generation CIOs: Change Agents for the Global Virtual Workplace (Cognizant Executive Summary PDF)
- Handbook for Basic Process Improvement (online handbook and tools)
Still not sure how to get started? Please contact EDUCAUSE staff at security-council@educause.edu and we'll try to help!
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