SC Media Editorial Intelligence, reviewed by Lora Vaughn

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Lora Vaughn is the founder of Vaughn Cyber Group, a fractional CISO and cybersecurity advisory firm, and CEO of Cairn Security, a third-party risk monitoring company she’s building from the ground up. She has over 20 years in cybersecurity, including two stints as CISO inside financial services, where she learned what actually holds up under a real incident versus what just looks good in an audit. Her focus is community banks, fractional security leadership, and third-party/vendor risk, the stuff most security programs get wrong because it’s unglamorous. She’s spoken at ISC2 Security Congress, WiCyS, and Rapid7 UNITED, and writes and speaks about cutting through security theater. Based in Birmingham, Alabama.