About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of planning before purchasing cybersecurity tools.

Need a pentest or vCISO? Work with us! https://www.securit360.com/ A major leadership failure in Cybersecurity is l buying tools first then figuring out where they fit and how to use them. That’s super backwards. Here’s what I would do instead. Plan first, buy & implement second. I’m going to cover just the planning part this week. Next week we will talk about buying and implementing. Because honestly, implementation is where a lot of security teams go wrong. Blog: https://offsec....

Topics covered

• cybersecurity leadership
• planning in cybersecurity
• implementation challenges
• pentesting
• vCISO

Keywords

• cybersecurity
• leadership
• pentest
• vCISO
• implementation
• planning

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