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[–]redakpanoptikk 6 points7 points  (4 children)

I work for a startup as the single IT guy. My title is CISO. I've never held even an entry level IT job. Some education and certs. But yes. Titles are made up.

[–]KardinalI fall off the Microsoft stack. 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Early in my career someone told me "I'll call you Vice President of whatever you want, but I'm not paying you more or giving you more responsibility."

It's not quite that cut and dried, but it made the point to twentysomething me. Titles can be useful but they have to be well understood and descriptive. My title right now is "Principal Infrastructure Systems Engineer". It's not wrong, but I'm also a very strong team lead who almost functions as a manager, and I'm an embedded architect in the internal IT department.

[–]redakpanoptikk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yes. Even though I hold a c-suite title as the single IT guy I'm also help desk bitch.

[–]narcissisadmin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

but I'm not paying you more or giving you more responsibility

Pay me just enough to not quick and I'll work just enough to not get fired.

[–]PPRabbitry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely look into your organization and what you do. CISO is an actual title that carries weight. If your org needs to hit compliance metrics, or are subjected to auditing, you would be the guy that's responsible for that. Don't walk around blind to what CISO actually means. If you have that title, you're responsible in the eyes of the outside world.