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Why Education Is One of the Hardest Environments to Secure
Michael Anderson explains why education is one of the hardest environments to secure, from open global networks and faculty-owned devices to legacy systems and cultural friction, and why prioritization, layered controls, and resilience matter more than budget size.
How to Build a Security Program as the First Security Leader
Nigel Sampson explains what it takes to build a cybersecurity program as an organization's first security leader, from understanding leadership concerns and assessing risk to building the team and choosing the right security stack.
Who Owns AI Risk? Building an AI Governance Model That Actually Works
Christophe Foulon explains why AI risk ultimately belongs to the business, not automatically the CISO, and how governance committees, risk-based review, and guardrails for data loss, spend, and autonomous agents keep enterprise AI use secure without slowing the business down.
How to Integrate AI Into Enterprise Stacks
Vincent Romney explains why integrating AI into the enterprise stack still comes down to security fundamentals, with identity management, least privilege access, and architectural rigor shaping how agentic systems are deployed and how prompt injection risk is contained.
How AI Has Elevated the Path to Compromise in Manufacturing
Al Imran Husain explains how AI is changing the path to compromise in manufacturing by increasing the speed and efficiency of attacks, while putting greater pressure on security teams to understand and protect critical IT and OT environments.
Consolidation vs. Best of Breed: How Security Leaders Should Decide
Yosef Beck explains why the consolidation decision starts with business requirements and what a team can realistically operate, when specialized tools turn into operational debt, where best of breed still wins, and how benefits realization proves an investment actually delivered.
Build, Buy, or Partner: Making Better Security Capability Decisions
Kenneth Foster breaks down how security leaders should decide whether to build a capability internally, buy a product, or work with a partner, looking beyond initial cost to ownership, maintenance, change velocity, internal dependencies, and outcomes.
How a CISO Protects Billion-Dollar Brands
Jeff Moore shares lessons from leading security across global organizations, including how CISOs can understand business and brand culture, identify the risks that matter, make security decisions within real-world budget constraints, and build a more mature security program.
Security Starts with Infrastructure
Konrad Fellman, CISO and VP of Global IT Infrastructure at Modine Manufacturing, explains why reducing cybersecurity risk depends less on new tools and more on aligning security priorities with the infrastructure and teams that keep the business running.
Cybersecurity Transformation: Understanding the System Before Trying to Change It
David Brockmyer draws on more than three decades in technology leadership to explain why security transformation starts with understanding existing constraints, closing ownership gaps, and balancing long-term change with early, visible wins.
The Future of Cybersecurity Regulations
Esmond Kane, CISO at Advarra, discusses how cybersecurity regulation is shifting from point-in-time compliance to continuous, provable assurance, and what that means for CISOs, executive leadership, and boards preparing for the next era of oversight.
Protecting the Business vs. Running the Business
Ken Lawrence, COO at Lighthouse Credit Union and former CIO, discusses how leadership priorities shift when moving from protecting the business as a security leader to running the business as an executive, covering risk management and business strategy.
Why Technology Transformations Fail
David Williamson shares the lessons he has learned leading enterprise technology transformations, covering executive alignment, change management, AI adoption, and how to measure the real business value of a transformation.
What Security Leaders Should Do Within Their First 90 Days
Brett Price, Global CISO at Quint, shares his proven framework for how security leaders can hit the ground running in a new role, from building trust with stakeholders to quickly assessing risk posture and establishing quick wins in the first 90 days.
Navigating Cybersecurity Challenges in Modern Healthcare
Charles Spence dives into the unique cybersecurity pressures facing modern healthcare organizations, from protecting patient data under HIPAA to managing legacy systems and the rising threat of ransomware targeting hospitals and health networks.
AI Risks and Opportunities: From Operator to Builder
Aby Rao, Deputy CISO, explores the dual reality of AI in cybersecurity, the opportunities it creates for defenders and the new attack surfaces it opens for adversaries. She shares how security teams can embrace AI responsibly while managing emerging risks.
SOC 2, AI Governance & Selling Cybersecurity to the Business
Alexander Tushinsky breaks down the practical realities of SOC 2 compliance, building AI governance frameworks, and how security leaders can communicate risk in business terms to gain executive buy-in and budget for critical security programs.
SaaS Cybersecurity Challenges
Dean Sapp, CISO at Filevine, discusses the evolving security challenges unique to SaaS companies, securing multi-tenant environments, managing third-party integrations, balancing velocity with security, and building a security-first culture in a fast-moving product organization.
Healthcare Cybersecurity Challenges
Dr. Sergio E. Sanchez, CIO at Coleman Health Services, shares first-hand experience managing cybersecurity in a behavioral health organization, protecting sensitive patient records, navigating compliance requirements, and building cyber resilience with limited resources in the healthcare sector.
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