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A conference invitation can be easy to justify: new ideas, contacts, technology, and professional development.

Good leadership often hinges on asking good questions. My journalism and media-training background particularly informs how I approach them.

We’ve spent years treating the “cybersecurity talent gap” like a math problem.

Approximately 612,000 UK businesses experienced a cybersecurity breach in the past year, according to the UK Government's Cyber security breaches survey with OpenAI and Anthropic most recently having committed data breaches from uninstructed cyberattacks.

Threat actors use AI and automation to weaponize flaws in milliseconds. Meanwhile, defensive teams remain shackled to spreadsheets, ticket chains, and 30-day approval cycles. 

When I was in high school, students joked that you got 200 points on the SAT simply for writing your name. True or not, it captured an important idea: your name got you into the game but didn't distinguish you from anyone else.

The most consistent pattern we are seeing across security leadership searches right now is about credibility.

Raymond Hankins, Chief Security Officer, Security Branch, at National Labor Relations Board talks about striking the balance of securing government facilities while maintaining an opening environment to the public.

Artificial Intelligence has officially crossed the threshold from a leading-edge experiment to a foundational business utility.

Recently, a well-meaning LinkedIn colleague posted a “wheel of privilege” exercise.