Many early-career security engineers are told to “think like a leader,” but rarely told what that actually looks like in practice. I’ve found that the most effective security engineers are the ones who understand the business they’re protecting and leverage that knowledge to become trusted risk leaders to the stakeholders they serve. It requires a mindset shift from technical defender to business risk leader, and that intentional approach can accelerate your path into securit

There are arguments that placing AI inside Zero Trust systems may allow AI to reintroduce the implicit trust assumptions that Zero Trust was created to remove. One way to compromise a machine learning model is to provide it with malicious data, poison its training set or slightly alter the input data so that the model produces incorrect predictions. Additionally, many machine learning algorithm operations are opaque, making audits extremely difficult. This lack of transparenc

I haven't been in cybersecurity since I started my career back in 2018, so I appreciate Chad pulling me in for this one. He's known me since I was a kid, trying to figure out what being a professional even meant. After college, I landed my first job, and Chad was already seasoned. Somehow, a kid from Pompano Beach, FL, and a guy from Camden, NJ found common ground, and we've been tight ever since. Real recognizes real. That goes for anywhere you go. When I started my professi

Every day, I read and respond to posts on LinkedIn asking why entry‑level cybersecurity job postings demand prior experience and suggesting that there are no longer any true entry‑level positions available. While I agree there is some validity to these concerns, my frustration comes from the fact that the underlying message often misses the larger issue. There are many entry‑level cybersecurity positions posted each week, and opportunities to work in the field are readily ava

By Christina Shannon, CIO at Kik You have heard the line a hundred times. There is a cybersecurity talent shortage. Millions of unfilled jobs. The industry is desperate for people. And then you apply to fifty entry-level roles, hear back from two, get ghosted by both, and start to wonder if the whole thing is a lie. It’s not a lie. But it’s not the whole truth either. And if you are trying to break into this field, or trying to grow once you’re in it, you deserve someone to t

What Is Cybersecurity? When people ask the question, “What is cybersecurity?” , the answer might seem simple at first. But the more you learn about the field, the more you realize that cybersecurity is far more complex—and far more important—than most people imagine. For many of us, our first exposure to cybersecurity came from movies and television. Growing up, I watched films like Hackers and shows like Mr. Robot . They portrayed cybersecurity as this world where a brillia