Mike Ernst – VP of Sales Engineering, Worldwide at ExtraHop

Mike Ernst is a cybersecurity veteran who leads a global team of highly-skilled sales engineers that work directly with customers and prospects helping them improve their security defenses with innovative technology. Mike is often engaged with customers working to solve the complex and mission-critical business problems that Fortune 1,000 and global 2,000 companies face. Mike spent more than a decade as an expert in network-based analytics and problem solving and is now applying that foundation to next-generation security investigation and response. Prior to ExtraHop, Mike was a Sales Engineering Director at Riverbed and OPNET before that.

Ben Carr

CISO at Cradlepoint

Jason Albuquerque

Chief Operating Officer at Envision Technologies

Matt Alderman

Executive Director at CyberRisk Alliance

Ben Carr

CISO at Cradlepoint

Jason Albuquerque

Chief Operating Officer at Envision Technologies

Matt Alderman

Executive Director at CyberRisk Alliance

1. Top Five CISO Demands and Challenges – Top Five CISO Demands and Challenges:

   1. The COVID pandemic has been both a crisis and an opportunity
   2. Enterprise users have and will continue to pose a complex security challenge
   3. The threat landscape is not only more brutal but innovating faster than enterprises can counter
   4. Security vendors are a double-edged sword: New products are distractions, yet relationships are key
   5. Zero-trust is a strategy, not a product: The folly of mixing up strategy and tactics

2. 6 information governance best practices – An information governance plan ensures that an organization’s content lifecycle meets compliance and business needs. Best practices can help organizations craft an effective plan.

   1. Form a committee of key stakeholders
   2. Define the business and compliance requirements
   3. Update policies for remote work
   4. Outline key governance plans in policies and standard operating procedures
   5. Define reports and alerts to monitor compliance
   6. Continuously monitor and review the plan

3. The Seven Deadly Sins Of Leadership – This post is the first in a series of seven, each focusing on a particular deadly sin of leadership. Each sin will be posted separately…
4. Leadership Sin 1: Not Owning Failures – Leadership Sin 1: Not Owning Failures

   – Be confident enough to lead by example and share your own failures with the team. This is not a sign of weakness — it is a sign of great strength.
   – Share inspirational examples of people who embraced failure and ultimately achieved breakout success.
   – Develop a culture of safety across your teams — show by your words and actions that when failures happen you will support the team to resolve the problem and you will never blame them.
   – Use retrospectives to objectively examine mistakes and learn from them. Then take action based on those learnings.

5. 3 Key Principles to Become a Successful Remote Leader – How can leaders today adapt to thrive in the inevitable remote world? Here a few unique insights.

   1. It’s not the same work hours
   2. Screen, screen, screen
   3. Go slow to go far

6. Secrets to building a healthy CISO-vendor partnership – Productive CISO-vendor partnerships are to key to overall security success. Here’s how to establish and maintain effective relationships with security vendors.

   – Communication vital to strong CISO-vendor relationships
   – Risk management, change preparedness, team engagement also key
   – CISOs’ biggest vendor turn-offs