# The Real Role of the Field CISO

DevFeed: [The Real Role of the Field CISO](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-real-role-of-the-field-ciso-39501.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.philvenables.com/post/the-real-role-of-the-field-ciso>)

Author: phil7672

Published: 2026-04-04T13:32:43Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Risk and Cyber](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/risk-and-cyber.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reliability.md>), [Security & Privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security-privacy.md>)

Tags: [ciso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ciso.md>), [cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cybersecurity.md>), [leadership](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/leadership.md>), [reliability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reliability.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses the role of Field CISOs and argues that security and reliability increasingly support sustainable, long-term customer success.

## Source excerpt

We all need to advance our businesses and that is in many respects about selling. We also need to recognize that security and reliability are increasingly the path to sustainable long term customer success - which is your success. This is where the Field CISOs come in. There are many more people that are becoming, so called, Field CISOs and many more organizations that are creating Field CISO teams under a variety of structures and names. Let's look at what Field CISOs are, why they exist,...