CISO Business Enablement: Getting to ‘Yes’ as a CISO – Dan Lohrmann – CSP #23
The CISO is often in a position where vulnerabilities are known and implementing a product may result in an insecure product. Should the CISO say ‘no we can’t do that’, or ‘figure out how to make it happen?’ Join this podcast to learn how a CISO was faced with this dilemma where he was asked by the business to implement a technology, where he had stacks of whitepapers indicating the technology was insecure.
To view the article from the CISO COMPASS Book that sparked this interview, please visit: https://securityweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CISOCOMPASS_Dan_Lohrmann_Article.pdf
Lohrmann, D. 2019. CISOs Need to be Enablers of Business Innovation-Here Is How. In CISO COMPASS: Navigating Cybersecurity Leadership Challenges with Insights from Pioneers, 1st Ed, pg 106. Fitzgerald, T. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fl. www.amazon.com/author/toddfitzgerald.
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1. CISO Business Enablement: Getting to ‘Yes’ as a CISO – Dan Lohrmann – CSP #23
The CISO is often in a position where vulnerabilities are known and implementing a product may result in an insecure product. Should the CISO say ‘no we can’t do that’, or ‘figure out how to make it happen?’ Join this podcast to learn how a CISO was faced with this dilemma where he was asked by the business to implement a technology, where he had stacks of whitepapers indicating the technology was insecure.
To view the article from the CISO COMPASS Book that sparked this interview, please visit: https://securityweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CISOCOMPASS_Dan_Lohrmann_Article.pdf
Lohrmann, D. 2019. CISOs Need to be Enablers of Business Innovation-Here Is How. In CISO COMPASS: Navigating Cybersecurity Leadership Challenges with Insights from Pioneers, 1st Ed, pg 106. Fitzgerald, T. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fl. www.amazon.com/author/toddfitzgerald.
This segment is sponsored by Cybereason. Visit https://www.cybereason.com/cisostories to learn more about them!
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Dan Lohrmann is an internationally recognized cybersecurity leader, technologist and author. Starting his career at NSA, Lohrmann has served global organizations in the public and private sectors in many leadership capacities. As a top Michigan Government technology executive for seventeen years, Dan was national CSO of the Year, Public Official of the Year and a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leader. He is currently CSO & Chief Strategist at Security Mentor, where he advises global and local corporations and governments on cybersecurity and technology infrastructure strategies and security culture change. He has been a keynote speaker at security conferences from South Africa to Europe and Washington D.C. to Moscow.
Dan’s award-winning blog: http://www.govtech.com/blogs/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity/
CSO Magazine articles: http://www.csoonline.com/author/dan-lohrmann
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