Gary P Shewan

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Security Leaders

This was an interesting listen. I came to it from a European mindset, so had to be a little bit more open minded. Joe Sullivan was the Uber CSO convicted of covering up a breach Former Uber CSO convicted for concealing 2016 data theftPassing off a ransom payment as a

Appoint an unqualified CISO?

There’s potentially a controversial discussion here. I don’t know this Senator. I remember from the TikTok hearings I don’t actually trust too many Senators. Some seem a bit mad. Senator lambasts UnitedHealth for picking ‘unqualified’ CISOSimilar cases have resulted in serious sanctions, and they were on a

Big not always best

The reference to the lack of a ‘healthy marketplace’ is key. I will admit in the past, when under pressure, I have calmed Exec and Audits with “Don’t worry it’s on Big Provider™️ At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing downCritics say negligence, misguided investments and hubris

Help the Farmers

I don’t even know which Minister is in charge of this (I looked them up, 🤷‍♂️). I’m very fond of Farmers. Tough and entrepreneurial job and you need to be knowledgable in a lot of things. Quite amazing that only 34 of 101 services can be done online. But

Big Tech has lost their mind

I think it’s widely accepted now that Jack Welch and his ‘rank and yank’ approach to ruthlessly drive productivity was very short-sighted and not great for a sustainable business. Similar parallels could be drawn with Boeing and their move from engineering/quality to growth at all cost. https://www.

Train your teams

A question or a challenge for anyone who has a security team in their org. It came off the back of a conversation about communication to Leadership and buy-in, and I don’t see it mentioned a lot. If you don’t have some sort of Selling/Marketing/Storytelling/Presentation

Meetings are broken

A long time ago I learned the KT-method from Kepner-Tregoe for problem solving. It came in very handy when running time critical major incidents, but I’ve used it pretty much ever since. When looking at problems and solutions you can develop tunnel vision very easily (SUPER quickly with Technical