ÜBER DIESE EPISODE
Don Silva Sr. started on third shift pulling cables at Sun Microsystems and climbed to Chief Information Security Officer at Raintree Systems. What moved him up was realizing security leadership is a business role, where a board cares only about the risk, its revenue impact, and whether appetite outweighs the cost to fix it.
He talks with Matt Peters about turning technical risk into dollars the board can act on, retiring the Department of No, hiring for attitude over raw skill, and reading a company’s risk appetite from how it answers a few questions.
Topics discussed:
- From third-shift cable puller to Chief Information Security Officer
- Why security leadership is a business role, not technical
- Translating technical risk into dollars the board understands
- Using compensating controls while the full fix ships
- Replacing the Department of No with partnership
- Hiring for attitude and fit over raw skill
- What an acquisition looks like from the CISO seat
- Reading a company’s risk appetite before you acquire
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Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/climbing-the-stack/id1850604017
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