Karen Turrini is a Managing Director at Comhar Partners based in San Francisco,California. Karen brings 25+ years’ experience in retained search and delivers upon exceptional customer and candidate experience staying in constant communication with all parties to ensure a successful result. Karen specializes in senior-level executive search assignments in the technology arena with a concentration on expanding high growth businesses specifically Consumer Internet, Enterprise and Security Software, Digital Media, Data Analytics, Infrastructure and Mobile. Karen places C-level, Vice President and other senior-level executives with an emphasis on Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Marketing, Sales, Product, Finance and Human Resources. Prior to joining Comhar Partners, Karen was the president of Turrini Associates for 18 years, specializing in Sales/Marketing executive positions within the technology sector. Previously, Karen was a partner at Kingsley Gate providing services to Fortune 500 companies. Karen helps lead the Technology Services-North America/Latin America Industry Practice Group, as well as the Chief Financial Officer and Marketing and Sales Functional Groups. She has earned a Bachelor’s Degree from University of the Pacific.

The Uncharted Path for New Security Leaders

Hiring a CISO: The evolving role of your security executive

Karen Turrini

Douglas Gladstone

August 6, 2020

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Before COVID, cybersecurity was a concern for businesses everywhere. In fact, in Microsoft’s 2019 Global Risk Perception Survey, 57 percent of companies ranked cybersecurity as a higher risk than economic uncertainty and brand reputation or damage. Looking ahead, what does all of this mean for the role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)? Not only is it more important than ever before, but the role has shifted since the start of COVID.

ON DEMAND: DevSecOps creates an environment of shared responsibility for security, where AppSec and development teams become more collaborative. With the right training and tools, developers can become more hands-on with security and, with that upskilling, stand out among their peers... however, they need the security specialists on-side, factoring them into securing code from the start and championing this mindset across the company.

ON DEMAND: The insider threat—consisting of scores of different types of crimes and incidents—is a scourge even during the best of times. But the chaos, instability and desperation that characterize crises also catalyze both intentional and unwitting insider attacks. Learn how your workers, contractors, volunteers and partners are exploiting the dislocation caused by today's climate of Coronavirus, unemployment, disinformation and social unrest.

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2020 November

This month, Security magazine brings you the Security 500 Report, Rankings and Thought Leader Profiles. How does your enterprise compare to others? Which security programs are leading the way? Also this month, we highlight how to plan, prepare for and build resilience to protests and other unplanned events, video surveillance tools for SMBs and more.

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