Cybersecurity Hiring Trends as Boards Bridge Confidence Gap and Build Strategic Lever – Jim McCoy – BSW #426
Business Security Weekly is well aware of the cybersecurity hiring challenges. From hiring CISOs to finding the right skills to developing your employees, we cover it weekly in the leadership and communications segment. But this week, our guest interview digs into the global cybersecurity hiring trends.
Jim McCoy, CEO at Atlas, joins Business Security Weekly to share his expertise on the global workforce needs in the 160 countries where Atlas provides direct Employer of Record services. From CISO hiring to where to build security teams, Jim will help us navigate the cybersecurity hiring challenges most organizations face.
In the leadership and communications segment, CISOs, CIOs and Boards: Bridging the Cybersecurity Confidence Gap, Rethinking the CIO-CISO Dynamic in the Age of AI, Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership, and more!
Jim McCoy is a transformational leader with more than 20 years in the global financial services and human capital management sectors. Jim joined Atlas from ManpowerGroup, where he built the largest global provider of Recruitment Outsourcing Services, and later led the North American Enterprise Client Team. Jim brings his expertise to help clients support their global workforce needs in the 160 countries where Atlas provides direct Employer of Record services, providing an optimal employment experience to help companies attract and retain the best talent, even where they don’t have operations.
Matt Alderman
- CISOs, CIOs and Boards: Bridging the Cybersecurity Confidence Gap
CISOs and CIOs, here’s your chance to prove to your boards the value of cybersecurity…because they need your help badly. And future investments — and therefore your organization’s security posture — depend on it.
- Rethinking the CIO-CISO Dynamic in the Age of AI
As artificial intelligence and digital transformation become table stakes for today's enterprises, CIOs and CISOs are being pulled into the spotlight, and the way these two leaders operate is changing.
- Why cybersecurity is now a strategic lever for tech firms navigating uncertainty
Cybersecurity has long been viewed as a technical safeguard, something handled by IT teams and compliance officers. But for today’s technology firms, especially those in SaaS, agentic AI and high-growth verticals, that framing is outdated. Cybersecurity is now a strategic lever for enterprise value.
- CISOs are questioning what a crisis framework should look like
CISOs increasingly assume the next breach is coming. What concerns them most is whether their teams will understand the incident quickly enough to limit the fallout. A recent report by Binalyze looks at how investigation practices are holding up across large US enterprises.
- Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership
I spent a couple of years managing a team, and I entered that role – like many – without knowing anything about how to do it. I tried to figure out how to be a good manager, and doing so I ended up reading a lot about servant leadership. It never quite sat right with me, though...
- The New Tools That Can Improve Workforce Training
Companies are pouring money into AI but failing to translate that investment into workforce capability, largely because traditional training methods don’t help employees retain or apply complex skills. Extended reality—virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality—bridges this gap by letting people learn through immersive, emotionally engaging, hands-on experiences that the brain encodes like real events. Organizations from Bank of America to Boeing to Walmart are already seeing faster learning, higher confidence, reduced errors, and lower costs by using XR to train employees in everything from customer-service scenarios to technical assembly. The technology works because it aligns with how people actually learn, benefits from major improvements in affordability and accessibility, and meets the expectations of a workforce already accustomed to immersive digital environments. The companies that start with focused pilot projects, match the right XR tool to the right skill gaps, and scale deliberately will build training systems that actually change behavior and materially improve performance.
