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Name: "This is the hottest CISO hiring market I've been a part of in 10 years of doing this." Sean Cleary
Uploaded: 2026-04-21T14:02:22.175Z
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Description: "This is the hottest CISO hiring market I've been a part of in 10 years of doing this." Sean Cleary leads the cybersecurity practice at Riviera Partners — and after a decade placing security leaders,

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"This is the hottest CISO hiring market I've been a part of in 10 years of doing this." Sean Cleary leads the cybersecurity practice at Riviera Partners — and after a decade placing security leaders, he has a clear view of the shift. The leaders boards want now combine deep engineering backgrounds with C-suite business acumen. That combination is rare, and AI is widening the gap, not narrowing it. "In the AI era, the most risky thing a security leader can be is just a security leader." More from Cleary on what's driving the shift and what separates elite CISOs from the rest: https://lnkd.in/g_Am9zFm

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