The demand for chief information security officers in the U.S. is rising, and so are the salaries of these increasingly important executives. The average compensation range for CISOs, in fact, starts at $136,000 and peaks at $345,000; the median salary for a U.S. CISO is $223,000, according to the new study from SilverBull, an IT and cybersecurity recruiting and staffing firm. But many CISOs make a lot more dough. For example, according to SilverBull, the top of the average salary range by location varies, including $421,000 in San Francisco, $406,000 in New York, $380,000 in Washington, $378,000 in Los Angeles, $362,000 in Chicago, and $348,000 in Atlanta. More >>

Last fall findings from a Harvey NashKPMG CIO survey across various industries revealed that more than half of healthcare CIOs anticipate increases in IT budgets in the year ahead though these same patient care organization leaders reported they also face significant skill gaps in data and analytics project management and change management Healthcare organizations have significant operational cost pressures now more than ever and there is an opportunity to close that gap quickly with disruptive technologies and analytic tools that open the door to the notion of the creative CIO To dive deeper Vickers recently spoke with Healthcare Informatics Managing Editor Rajiv Leventhal about the reports findings what the biggest takeaways were and how CIOs operations and processes will change moving forward Everything around the cloud is big I am really finding it interesting how much activity we have now with assessments and road mapping around cloud application work More >>