They're Less "Best Practices" and More "Sounds Good on LinkedIn"

About this episode

This episode discusses the evolving role of the CISO and the practical challenges they face in organizations.

All links and images can be found on CISO Series. This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark , producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis , principal of Duha. Joining us is Rebecca Harness , CISO, Deltek . In this episode: Let it fail The CIO seat is empty. Now what? Design for how people actually work "We found 23 issues. That'll be $15,000." Huge thanks to our sponsor, Strike48 Strike48 is the Agentic Log Intelligence Platform that actually puts AI agents to work, combining full log visibility with AI agents that investigate, detect, and respond 24/7. With pre-built agent clusters for security and a no-code agentic workflow builder, it's easy to get started. Learn more at strike48.com/security .

People in this episode

Hosts: David Spark, Andy Ellis

Guest: Rebecca Harness

Topics covered

• CISO challenges
• organizational design
• AI in security
• log intelligence
• best practices

Keywords

• CISO
• best practices
• AI agents
• log visibility
• security
• organizational design

Sponsors

Strike48

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Deltek

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