CISO’s Actionable Strategy for Success, Security Basics are Hard, & Building Culture – BSW #318

Here are three ways you can communicate risk to your leadership team:

1: Make the Risk Real 2: Partner with Leaders Across Other Departments 3: Reframe the Conversation

The basics of cybersecurity, it turns out, aren’t so basic.

Fundamental defenses — identity and access management, MFA, memory-safe languages, patching and vulnerability management — are lacking or nonexistent across the economy, according to cybersecurity experts.

Although the CEO role comes with power, pay, and privilege, it also involves emotional labor, as leaders feel the toll of making divisive and unpopular decisions. This aspect of the job has become more challenging the last few years. This article offers leaders four tools to help cope with the pressure.

As entrepreneurs, we stride towards our goals with unbridled passion and unwavering determination. Our visions drive us, and our businesses are a testament to our commitment. Yet, the journey to success is marked by pivotal choices, and one such choice is embracing the art of delegation.

When employees at every level speak up, they circulate local knowledge, expand the universe of useful ideas, and prevent collective tunnel vision. And not infrequently, minority views turn into novel solutions. But you can’t speak a speak-up culture into existence — doing so in the absence of true psychological safety is an abdication of leadership and an admission of failure. The author presents four steps leaders can take to create conditions that give all employees a voice — and motivate them to use it:

1) Separate worth from worthiness; 2) separate loyalty from agreement; 3) separate status from opinion; and 4) separate permission from adoption.

Experts outline four things that employers can do to build their cybersecurity workforces.

1. Boost Training
2. Look Beyond Traditional Talent Pools
3. Zero In On Diversity and Inclusion
4. Embrace Cybersecurity Professionals