The Future Of Proactive Security Before Building an AI Enabled Enterprise – Erik Nost – BSW #430
Erik Nost is a senior analyst at Forrester serving security and risk (S&R) professionals. His coverage includes proactive security, vulnerability management, exposure management, attack surface management, and continuous security testing. Erik helps Forrester clients build strategies to increase cybersecurity maturity and decrease risks in their environment.
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- What the CEO and C-Suite Must Ask Before Building an AI Enabled Enterprise
Artificial intelligence is transforming business models and competitive advantage. Leadership teams agree AI matters, but far fewer know how to turn AI potential into real, measurable business outcomes. Research shows most companies have not developed an enterprise-wide Data + AI strategy that drives value beyond experimentation.
- Leaders, Bring Your Best Self into the New Year
Despite a well-established science of identifying leaders and no shortage of reliable tools to assess leaders’ potential, half of senior executives can be expected to fail. What explains this gap? It has to do with the difference between what leaders can do and what they actually do. Industrial organizational psychologists have long studied this contrast through the distinction between maximal and typical performance. As a leader, how can you bring your best self to another year that’s sure to be characterized by unpredictability and constant change? There are four behavioral science-informed ways to shape your impact and fulfillment: 1) Know your ideal aspirational self; 2) work to change the system, not just optimize it; 3) stay more in learning mode than performance mode; and 4) resist your natural aversion to change.
- CIO time: How IT leaders manage their calendars
As CIOs juggle long hours and global demands, they rely on deliberate scheduling and trusted assistants to stay focused on key priorities.
- Why Leadership Content Breaks Under Pressure
Leadership content is everywhere. LinkedIn is drowning in it. Instagram sells it in pastel fonts. Podcasts whisper it into your ears while you’re on a treadmill pretending you’re training for something bigger than leg day.
And it all works… right up until it doesn’t.
- Don’t Underestimate the Value of Professional Friendships
Most people try to keep work and friendship in separate boxes, but that division is counterproductive. Professionals now spend more time with colleagues than with anyone else, and strong personal ties at work are directly linked to trust, learning, creativity, and performance. The real obstacle to productive business friendships is the widespread belief that mixing the personal and professional inevitably cheapens relationships, a mindset that prevents people from forming connections that would make them more effective and happier. When people instead allow genuine friendships to overlap with their professional networks, they build larger, more useful networks, collaborate more openly, and experience greater well-being. Integrating these worlds is a practical strategy for better work and a more fulfilling life.
- What Kevin Bacon Can Teach You About Cybersecurity Careers
Most people remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game. You start with any actor and, within a few moves, you can usually connect them to Kevin Bacon through shared films. The game is about pop culture trivia but the lesson was never really about movies. It was about networks, proximity and how quickly distance collapses once you trace relationships instead of assuming separation. That same logic applies cleanly to modern cybersecurity risk and to how careers advance in this industry specialty.
