Cybersecurity Leadership

Agentic AI Security Checklist: What to Validate First This agentic AI security checklist gives CISOs a practical way to test ownership, identity, permissions, tools, data handling, monitoring, human approval and shutdown controls before an autonomous agent is trusted in production. Table of Contents

Microsoft MVP in Security Seventeen Years Later, It Still Feels Like the First Time: Renewed as a MVP

This morning I opened the email I have been lucky enough to receive every year since 2009: “Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the

The Dark Web Exposure Checklist for CISOs

Dark web monitoring can be genuinely useful, and it can also be pure theatre. The theatre version goes like this: a vendor sends an alert that credentials, data, or brand mentions turned up somewhere underground, the screenshot looks frightening, the executive team asks whether the company has been breached, and the security team s...

What It Takes to Run a SOC With a Team of Five

Short answer: You cannot buy 24/7 security coverage with five people, so stop trying to. The math of round-the-clock staffing requires somewhere between eight and twelve analysts, which means a team of five has to win a different way: by cutting alert noise hard, leaning on automation for triage, handing the o...

Cybersecurity Books for Security Leaders: How to Build a Reading Plan

A good cybersecurity reading list is not a pile of random titles you collected from other people’s recommendations. It should build a leader’s thinking in deliberate layers. Technical depth matters, of course, but so do risk judgement, communication, governance, resilience, and the ability to decide well...