34 Years as a CIO: What Cyber Resilience Really Takes (Episode 46)

What does it actually take to keep a 1,350-person firm secure, resilient, and ahead of the curve for 34 years? In this episode of Unraveling IT, host Bush Williams sits down with Andy Knauf, CIO and VP at Mead & Hunt — a 125-year-old national engineering and architecture firm — and the company's very first IT hire back in 1990.Andy has watched Mead & Hunt grow from a single office of 85 people to more than 60 offices, navigating every major shift along the way: mainframes to cloud, perimeter defense to a modern SOC, and now the AI era. He and Bush dig into why he chose to outsource security operations instead of hiring a single "head of security," how regular MDR reviews changed his relationship with the board, the bleeding-edge mistakes that taught him resilience, and why he thinks resisting AI is exactly like the holdouts who refused to give up their drafting tables.Honest, practical, and refreshingly free of hype — this is what three-plus decades in the CIO chair really sounds like.RELATED RESOURCESLearn more about Mead & Hunt: https://meadhunt.com/Read Mead & Hunt's Client Success Story: https://corsicatech.com/resources/managed-cybersecurity-case-study-engineering-construction/CMMC Compliance Services: https://corsicatech.com/services/cmmc-compliance-services/Secure your business 24/7: https://corsicatech.com/services/managed-cyber-security/🔔 Subscribe for more expert tech talks for IT leaders.