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Cybersecurity analyst reviewing alerts on multiple screens, illustrating why the best cybersecurity hires ask why before how
Cybersecurity

Why the Best Cybersecurity Hires Ask “Why?” Before They Ask “How?”

A security team can have impressive tools, a long résumé on every analyst’s LinkedIn, and still miss the one attacker who never triggered an alert. That is not a hypothetical anymore. It is, according to a growing chorus of security leaders and a handful of recent studies, the defining problem of cybersecurity work in the age of AI — and it’s quietly rewriting what companies look for when they hire.

A cybersecurity CISO discussing operational resilience in a boardroom with executives
Cybersecurity

The CISO’s New Job: Less Firewall, More Boardroom

Charles Blauner has spent nearly three decades protecting some of the world’s largest banks from people whose full-time job is to break in. Now, as he looks back from the vantage point of JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Citigroup, he says the hardest part of being a chief information security officer was never really about the technology — it was about getting a chocolate-company executive to care about a server patch.

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