How Humans Learn, How Machines Don’t, and What That Means for the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Practitioners In Part 1 of this series, we traced how AI in cybersecurity went from an academic curiosity to a marketing buzzword, and finally to something genuinely new with the arrival of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the need for developing AI Literacy. But there’s a bigger...
Cybersecurity Literacy in the Age of AI (Part 1)
What is AI Literacy and why every security practitioner needs to have it? Is it the ultimate new skill in cybersecurity? If you just dropped into the security industry today and are listening to the chatter, you’d be forgiven for thinking that AI in cybersecurity was invented in the last couple of years. Every vendor, analyst, and conference keynote talks about it like it’s a brand-new thing. But...
We Want a Solution to Remediate, Not Just Detect Problems
Discovery of security issues is important, but ultimately we need to remediate them. So why do so many solutions seem to stop short?
In this episode of Defense in Depth, I joined as a guest co-host to David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and our guest, Neil Watkins, SVP technology and cybersecurity services, i3 Verticals.
Which security game are you playing?
A few years ago I watched Simon Sinek excellent talk “Most Leaders Don’t Even know the game they are in” and it changed completely how I am thinking about practicing cybersecurity. In his talk, Sinek presented the concept of finite vs. infinite games, and how this concept applies to leadership. Finite game vs. infinite game A finite game as a game with known players, fixed...
