FountainBlue’s August 9 When She Speaks event, on the topic of Keeping Up with the Bad Guys. Please join me in thanking our panelists and our gracious hosts at Palo Alto Networks. Below are notes from the conversation.
We were fortunate to have such a technical and articulate panel of leaders to speak on the Intent-Based Networking topic. Our panelists represented a wide range of educational and professional backgrounds, but they had much in common:
- They have deep business and technical expertise that they leverage in their day-to-day activities.
- They are continuous learners, making sure to apply new learnings to improve professional and personal outcomes.
- They have a customer oriented mindset, and strategically focus on growing the ecosystem.
They each spoke eloquently on the cyber security opportunities and challenges ahead.
- Plan ahead in case there’s a security breach. Train your people, adopt your processes, be aware of implications, etc.,
- Be customer focused – whether you’re serving internal or external customers. See the challenges through their eyes and make it easy for customers to help themselves.
- No matter where you sit at the table, communicate clearly and transparently, and manage projects and people collaboratively.
- Leverage automation and AI to handle standard cyber security challenges, but don’t stop there. Assume that threats can’t be addressed through automation alone.
- Regardless of whether you’re directly in charge, learn from each breach (whether it happens to your company, your team or someone else’s) and integrate these learnings into new plans and processes.
- Critical elements for proactive cybersecurity management include: Proactive Risk Assessment, Strategic Continuous Management of Access, and Ongoing Authentication and Validation.
- Security is a team sport. It’s everyone’s job at some level to Protect, Detect, and Respond to cyber security threats.
- Adopt tools and processes which would allow your company to manage possession, custody and control of assets.
- With all the data out there, it’s important to quickly sift out the anomalies – as these events are much more likely to be problems.
- Cybersecurity involves many overwhelming tasks. There are so many things to oversee and manage, so many things to control and configure, so many people to track and communicate with.
Our panelists were bullish on the opportunities ahead in cyber security, and encouraged each of us to seriously consider how we could each contribute to a burgeoning industry.
They concluded that leaders and managers must stay on top of policies, requirements, training, as well as ongoing management and proactive planning and support. Nobody can do everything right all the time. Hence, it will take an ecosystem of partners to stay ahead of the bad guys. Collaboration is key.
FountainBlue’s August 9 When She Speaks event was on the topic of Keeping Up with the Bad Guys. Please join me in thanking our panelists and our gracious hosts at Palo Alto Networks.
- Facilitator Linda Holroyd, CEO, FountainBlue
- Panelist Julie Cullivan, Chief People and Technology Officer, ForeScout
- Panelist Vaishali Ghiya, Senior Director, Security Sales Systems Engineering, Cisco
- Panelist Katrin Jakob, Co-Founder, White Hawk Software
- Panelist Jocelyn King, CMO, Encryptics; Managing Partner, Vonzos Partners
- Panelist Archana Muralidharan, Principal, Technical Risk Management, Palo Alto Networks
See bios and invitation at https://www.tikkl.com/fountainblue/c/badguys.
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