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We Look Under the Cushions for Unused Security Opportunities
This week's episode of Defense in Depth
Amplifying Your Security Posture
On this episode of Defense in Depth:
Co-host Allan Alford and our guest Matt Southworth, CISO of Priceline, discuss the following:
When you manage too many people you get to a point of saturation. Are you doing security or are you managing people?
Core success comes from looking outside your immediate staff for security help. Most common programs are Security Champions and Security Prime. The first are just people outside of the InfoSec team who really want to learn about security, and the Prime players are actually implementing it.
Look for ways to reduce overheard in terms of paperwork, meetings, and unnecessary programs. If what you're doing is not helping, stop doing it.
Empower individuals to make their own decisions about security without the chain of command of approvals.
Avoid giving orders, because once you do you'll always be called into a meeting on that topic.
Use artificial intelligence (AI) to take work off of the security operations center (SOC) and incident response team.
The "lazy" sysadmin who automates all his tasks is a highly productive member.
Communicate to everyone that security requires the entire company's support, not just the security staff.
Special thanks to this week's Defense in Depth podcast sponsor, SecurityBridge.
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