Show Notes
Welcome to Hacker Valley Blue Season 2 “Know Thyself”. Instead of focusing on the enemy – threat intelligence and environment, we are focusing on knowing yourself and security stack. You need to know the business, but also the fundamentals of security landscape. Without the fundamentals, you cannot reach the level of success you desire. Getting laser sharp on computer networks and how computers speak to each other. Without understanding how each of the pieces work together, you cannot make strategic decisions. We have many guests this season that will teach more about the fundamentals. Stop ignoring the fundamentals and find synchronicity among your team. Building this team makes an impact for the business. You will have positive outcomes. Stop sweeping the issues under the rug to make better decisions.
Cybersecurity is a lot like playing a game of chess using pieces, policies, and guidelines. Opponents use the same things but don’t play by the rules. You continually must up your game and face the opponent who isn’t playing fairly.
Knowing business, team, story and self is so important and that is what is coming up on the rest of the season.
Key Takeaways
0:00 Welcome
2:00 Kick-off
3:13 The fundamentals
5:46 How do you get people excited?
7:07 Making an impact on a business
8:43 Where does one begin to know thyself
10:32 Formula 1 analogy
12:32 Leadership
16:00 Superpowers
19:38 Three Rs of memory
24:58 Chaos engineering
27:56 The brother’s trip
30:11 Stepping into unknown
31:15 Play at work
32:00 Season recap
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