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A cybersecurity skills gap demands thinking outside the box
ByKayne
“There’s a perception that it is all hands-on-keyboards — people sitting in a basement somewhere drinking soda,” McGladrey said. “That perception, unfortunately, drives a lot of talented individuals who would have made a lot of meaningful contributions to the field to make other career choices.”
McGladrey wants security pros to talk to their colleagues, friends and families about the field and its diversity of roles. He also urges organizations to widen their candidate pools to include those with more varied backgrounds and life experiences.
“Right now in cybersecurity, we’re doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result — the definition of insanity,” he said.
Panel discussion at CES 2024: How Will AI Impact the Jobs of the Future?
ByKayne
Join Tom Coughlin, J.L. Doty, Gloria Washington, Kathleen Kramer and me as we explore the jobs we’ll see created over the next 20 years, industry’s role driving innovation and the skills our future workforce will need.
The GRC Maturity Model
ByKayne
Companies with mature GRC programs have an advantage over their competitors. However, something has been missing in the GRC world: the ability to truly understand an organization’s GRC maturity and the steps it would take to build the business case for change. That’s where the GRC Maturity Model comes in.
Hyperproof’s GRC Maturity model is a practical roadmap for organizations to improve their GRC maturity business processes to enter new markets and successfully navigate our rapidly changing regulatory and legal space. By providing a vendor-agnostic roadmap for how companies can improve key business operations, we can help even the playing field for everyone in GRC.
This extensive, peer-reviewed model written by Kayne McGladrey includes:
An overview and definition of Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC)
A summary of the four maturity levels defined in the model: Traditional, Initial, Advanced, and Optimal
An overview of the most common business practices associated with governance, risk, and compliance
A simplified maturity chart listing the attributes associated with each maturity level
A list of observable behaviors or characteristics associated with the maturity level to help you assess where your organization falls
A set of high-level recommendations for how to move from a lower level to a higher level
Design Flaws In Cyber Security Reports And Related CISO Sleep Patterns
ByKayne
Like many CISOs, I don’t sleep much; in my case, getting by on five to six hours of sleep a night is hereditary. Although the tracker collected detailed telemetry, the app only provided comparative reports against other people. Despite my experience, the app alarmingly claimed I’d been having terrible problems sleeping for weeks in a row.
Producing highly accurate reports without individual customization is a consistent design flaw of many cyber security solutions available today.
Q&A: Security Thought Leaders Discuss Certs, SMEs & Hiring Process
ByKayne
One way to combat that involves grassroots efforts to boost the ranks. But do security teams search for qualified, seasoned experts, and do they look for specialization or the proverbial “generalist” who can cover many corners of the cyber space? It is an ongoing debate in the industry, and today, we’ve brought together two security thought leaders to provide their take. We sat down with Kayne McGladrey, Co-Founder and Spokesperson, Include Security, and Rebecca Wynn, Head of Information Security and Data Protection Officer (DPO), Senior Director, Matrix Medical Network.
Critical Infrastructure Requires Modernization
ByKayne
“The monetization and weaponization of digital threats was comparably new when the critical infrastructure components that manage our modern world were being designed for reliability a decade or two ago,” said IEEE Senior Member Kayne McGladrey. McGladrey says that it’s time consuming to patch security flaws in many of these older components, some of which were designed to run uninterrupted for decades.