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Early Adopters: CISO

by Front Lines Studios

How does the modern CISO decide what to trust? Hosted by Dan Nguyen-Huu, partner at Decibel, Early Adopters: CISO talks to security leaders about how they evaluate new technology, build trust with vendors, manage risk, and decide what is worth bringing into their companies. Across the six-part series, Dan speaks with CISOs from companies including 1Password, Plaid, Legora, and others about the bets that paid off, the ones they missed, and how AI is changing the way security teams make decisions.

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Episodes

  1. How AI SOC Is Turning Tier 1 Into Tier 2 ft. Myke Lyons, CISO at Cribl

    Myke Lyons (Chief Information Security Officer @ Cribl) bought his first logging system for $1.5 million, then waited for the license key. A six-foot rack of hardware showed up in the mailroom instead. Now he's back in telemetry at Cribl, arguing that AI SOC should move tier 1 analysts up into…

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  2. Why AI Agent Access Is Security’s Big Unsolved Problem ft. Sean Cassidy, CISO at Plaid

    When OpenAI published details of the Hugging Face attack, Sean Cassidy (Chief Information Security Officer @ Plaid) told fellow CISOs that worrying about it happening to them was only half the job. They also had to make sure their own agents weren't hacking other companies without anyone knowing....

  3. What Security Tools to Build vs. Buy ft. Zack Allen, Senior Director at Datadog

    Datadog's security team dropped its security questionnaire vendor and built the one piece of functionality it needed in two to three months. Zack Allen, Senior Director, Trust and Detection Engineering at Datadog, says the call came down to expertise, data and the harness. On this episode of…

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  4. What Founders Get Wrong When Pitching a Modern CISO ft. Andrew Becherer, CISO at Socket

    Andrew Becherer, CISO at Socket, joins Early Adopters: CISO to talk about what security teams should build, what they should buy, and what founders get wrong when selling to them. The conversation covers Andrew's path from a sociology degree to iSEC Partners, joining Datadog in 2015 as its only...

  5. What Founders Need to Prove to Win Over a Modern CISO ft. Jacob DePriest, CISO/CIO at 1Password

    Jacob DePriest, CISO/CIO at 1Password, joins Early Adopters: CISO to talk about how security leaders decide what to adopt in the AI era. The conversation covers Jacob’s path from the NSA to GitHub to 1Password, why not shipping is its own form of risk, and how 1Password uses a velocity-weighted...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

How does the modern CISO decide what to trust? Hosted by Dan Nguyen-Huu, partner at Decibel, Early Adopters: CISO talks to security leaders about how they evaluate new technology, build trust with vendors, manage risk, and decide what is worth bringing into their companies. Across the six-part series, Dan speaks with CISOs from companies including 1Password, Plaid, Legora, and others about the bets that paid off, the ones they missed, and how AI is changing the way security teams make decisions.

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How does the modern CISO decide what to trust? Hosted by Dan Nguyen-Huu, partner at Decibel, Early Adopters: CISO talks to security leaders about how they evaluate new technology, build trust with vendors, manage risk, and decide what is worth bringing into their companies. Across the six-part...

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