The Discernible Blog
Is Your Security or Engineering Team ready for a Chief of Staff?
Advice from a CISO Chief of Staff on how to know when the time is right to hire a Chief of Staff and how to find the right one for your team.
A CISOs right hand on how security communications can build credibility across the organization
Jessica Walters is Senior Security & IT Program Manager at Tessian, and former Chief of Staff to the CISO of Cisco’s Security Business Group. I had the pleasure of working with Jessica in her former role and in this Q&A, she shares her perspective on how to use security communications proactively in building an effective security team.
Exercising Influence as the Security Team: Look for Friction Not Just Fuel
Sometimes in security, we try to win people over by pushing harder, missing the friction that prevents them from exercising the behavior or decisions we need.
Measuring Communication Effectiveness in Security and Privacy
Without effective communication, incident response is sluggish and chaotic, policies aren’t followed or enforced, business leaders make uninformed decrees, audits drown team morale, and confusion among external stakeholders breeds mistrust and resentment. If there was ever a time for security and privacy leaders to upgrade their communication skills and those of their team, this is it!
Preparing for Task Loading During Incident Response
Proactively planning for task loading in our incident response gives us more cognitive capacity to take in and make sense of more elements of the situation.
Resilience is a Team Sport Chief Security Officers Must Learn How to Coach
One of the most overlooked aspects of incident response is how the culture, communication, and resilience of security teams will change.