Fortinet
10,000+ employees
🔒 Cybersecurity
☁️ SaaS
🤝 B2B
💰 $6.5M Series B on 2005-01
Cybersecurity • SaaS • B2B
Fortinet is a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions, focusing on securing networks, applications, and data across various environments. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes advanced threat protection, secure access service edge (SASE), and networking solutions, all integrated into a single point of management. With a commitment to innovation and efficiency, Fortinet serves a wide range of industries, securing over 700,000 enterprise customers and government organizations globally.
Field CISO
🕒 June 4
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Fortinet
10,000+ employees
🔒 Cybersecurity
☁️ SaaS
🤝 B2B
💰 $6.5M Series B on 2005-01
Cybersecurity • SaaS • B2B
Fortinet is a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions, focusing on securing networks, applications, and data across various environments. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes advanced threat protection, secure access service edge (SASE), and networking solutions, all integrated into a single point of management. With a commitment to innovation and efficiency, Fortinet serves a wide range of industries, securing over 700,000 enterprise customers and government organizations globally.
📋 Description
• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to CISOs, CIOs, and boards of directors at key accounts. • Partner with enterprise sales teams on strategic deals, owning the CISO-to-CISO relationship. • Lead executive briefings, security workshops, and board-level presentations that advance pipeline and accelerate close. • Represent the company at industry conferences (RSA, Black Hat, Gartner Security Summit), in media, and in analyst briefings. • Author white papers, and executive content that drives brand authority. • Act as the voice of the CISO community back into the product and engineering organization. • Cultivate a network of CISO champions, advisory board members, and reference customers. • Help customers develop and mature their security programs.
🎯 Requirements
• 15+ years of relevant work experience in security software, hardware, architecture, strategy, in part as a technology evangelist. • Demonstrated proficiency with security strategy, products, and ecosystems. • Highly networked in the CISO executive networks, including CISO coalitions and summits, and regularly leveraging and working the inner circles of those connections to further promote the Fortinet brand and accelerate our business growth. • Exceptional negotiation, demonstration, presentation and interpersonal communication skills are essential. • Deep expertise in at least two domains: cloud security, identity, threat detection & response, OT/ICS, or GRC • Highly influential relationship builder. • Customer focused and commercially minded. • Proven track record in a similar role with clear evidence of successful execution. • Fortinet product knowledge and understanding of its developer ecosystem preferred. • Public speaking experience with great PowerPoint creation and presentation skills. • Established industry presence (speaking, writing, or advisory board participation) • Experience in a customer-facing or commercial role (sales, pre-sales, advisory, consulting, or fractional CISO) • Familiarity with AI/ML-driven security tools and emerging threat vectors • Preferably experience in a CISO, Deputy CISO, Field CISO role or alternatively a senior vendor, consultancy, or analyst role alongside practitioner background • Willing to travel within reason.
🏖️ Benefits
• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development
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