What is the most important advice you can give the next generation of security professionals and CISOs?

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Field Chief information Security Officer (CISO) for Public Sector & Client Advisor in Finance (non-banking)3 years ago

Find a mentor, who is at least 5-10 years ahead of you in your professional career, and who you trust to guide your journey. Also, be a mentor for others and give back.

For more details on this. see: https://www.govtech.com/blogs/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity/security-pros-need-a-mentor-heres-why-and-how.html

Director ERP Management in Travel and Hospitality3 years ago

Make sure to include a solid defense against Ransomware, review it regularly and update as new vulnerabilities are discovered.

CISO in Finance (non-banking)3 years ago

Don't be afraid to fail and truly learn from those experiences.

CISO in Software3 years ago

Always have a training and growth plan with dedicated time allocation and structure to stay current on trends, technologies and processes.

CIO/CISO in Healthcare and Biotech3 years ago

Focus enough time on learning to translate the technical aspects of what you do (using risk as the key arbiter) into language that your C-Suite peers and board members can understand. The technical controls have become much more mature in the past 5 years, the real challenge is preparing to talk on the same language level as your peers in other business units

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What is the most important advice you can give the next generation of security professionals and CISOs?

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What topics would you like to learn more about / be most likely to attend a webinar on?

In terms of the overall level of risk associated with business data, where are organizations seeing the most risk today?

Why do you think there are so few mature AI-driven autonomous pentesting solutions on the market, and why does this topic seem to generate more hype than in-depth technical discussion?

Which pitfalls—model bias, false positives/negatives, data quality, regulatory constraints—often impede AI-based security tools, and how can they be mitigated in a financial-services context?

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