What strategic role has emerged as critical in recent years in large organizations due to cyber attacks?

a. Chief Database Officer

b. Chief Security Officer

c. Chief Legal Officer

d. Chief Technology Officer

The correct answer is the option B: Chief Security Officer.

Explanation:

To begin with, a Chief Security Officer or CSO is the most important senior level executive that an organization has in its team whose main purpose is to develop and oversight policies and programs whose primary focus are on the mitigation and reduction of secutiry risk regarding the protection of people, intellectual assets and tangible property.

Secondly, the security of the organization regarding the fact of cyber attacks does have a cooperative inter-connected involvement, where the figure of Chief Information Security Officer appears and combines their function with the CSO. Moreover, the CISO is the one executive inside the organization that focuses to the problems about ensuring information assets in particular.