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"It's kind of like homeowners’ insurance," says Joshua Brown, Founder of Digital Defense Consulting & CISO at Spektrum Labs, about security programs — they’re helping to mitigate risks, not remove them entirely. “If you have homeowners insurance and your house never burns down, it doesn't mean you wasted money. You were there to mitigate the impact of that potentially catastrophic event.”
On this episode of Ahead of the Breach, Josh helps Casey dive deep into why security leaders must abandon technical jargon for financial impact metrics when speaking to executives. He also shares how his strategic approach to the FAIR risk model helps convert everything into business impact dollars.
Josh tells Casey his multi-source technique for identifying security gaps by correlating CMDB, cloud services, and EDR data, as well as his three-point leadership framework that emphasizes purpose, ownership, and mentorship to retain talent in an era where AI-powered attackers are developing exploits and sophisticated phishing campaigns faster than defenders can patch.
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"It's kind of like homeowners’ insurance," says Joshua Brown, Founder of Digital Defense Consulting & CISO at Spektrum Labs, about security programs — they’re helping to mitigate risks, not remove them entirely. “If you have homeowners insurance and your house never burns down, it doesn't mean you wasted money. You were there to mitigate the impact of that potentially catastrophic event.”
On this episode of Ahead of the Breach, Josh helps Casey dive deep into why security leaders must abandon technical jargon for financial impact metrics when speaking to executives. He also shares how his strategic approach to the FAIR risk model helps convert everything into business impact dollars.
Josh tells Casey his multi-source technique for identifying security gaps by correlating CMDB, cloud services, and EDR data, as well as his three-point leadership framework that emphasizes purpose, ownership, and mentorship to retain talent in an era where AI-powered attackers are developing exploits and sophisticated phishing campaigns faster than defenders can patch.
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