Field CISO EMEA
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Serve as a trusted executive advisor to CISOs, CIOs, CTOs, risk leaders, and boards in Cato's most strategic accounts. Lead peer-level security conversations on business risk, cyber resilience, cloud transformation, and AI security while leveraging your network to create executive access and market influence. Partner with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Customer Success, Product, and Marketing to shape strategic opportunities and translate platform value into executive outcomes. Represent Cato through executive briefings, board discussions, advisory sessions, and thought leadership content. Act as the voice of the security community inside Cato, bringing customer priorities and competitive insight back to leadership. This role supports revenue, but trust comes first.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 10 years as an actual CISO in large private or public companies
- 20 or more years in cybersecurity
- Executive accountability for enterprise security strategy, risk, architecture, operations, incident response, governance, compliance, and board reporting
- Proven experience leading security in complex enterprise environments, including global operations, regulated industries, public companies, or similarly demanding organizations
- Active network of CISO, CIO, risk, security, and technology executive peers
- Ability to use that network to build access, trust, insight, and business impact
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively for customer meetings, executive briefings, industry events, internal planning, and regional field programs
- Travel may exceed 50 percent
- Deep understanding of modern security and infrastructure, including SASE, SSE, SD WAN, Zero Trust, cloud security, identity, threat prevention, SOC modernization, data protection, AI security, and compliance
- Strong executive presence, public speaking, writing, and storytelling skills
- Ability to translate complex security topics into clear business language
- Commercial judgment, cross functional discipline, integrity, discretion, and the ability to work closely with field teams while preserving the credibility expected of a former CISO
Desired Qualifications
- Recognised security community profile, including public speaking, publishing, media participation, advisory boards, or peer community leadership
- Experience in complex, high stakes environments such as Fortune 1000, Global 2000, regulated industries, critical infrastructure, or large scale transformation programs
- Familiarity with Cato, SASE, security platform consolidation, or enterprise network security modernization
- Relevant certifications or advanced education, such as CISSP, CISM, CCISO, MBA, or a graduate degree in cybersecurity, computer science, engineering, or a related field
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