Should CISOs Be More Empathetic Towards Salespeople?

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Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn. Joining me is our guest, Emily Heath, general partner, Cyberstarts.

In this episode:

How do CISOs feel about sales pitches?
Do they have legitimate complaints?
When do these legitimate complaints cross the line to sounding entitled?
Do CISOs need to show a little more empathy to sales?

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, SquareX

SquareX helps organizations detect, mitigate and threat-hunt web attacks happening against their users in real-time, including but not limited to malicious sites, files, scripts, and networks. Find out more at sqrx.com.

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Defense in Depth

Should CISOs Be More Empathetic Towards Salespeople?

Defense in Depth

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published about a year ago

MP3•Episode home

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.

In this episode:

How do CISOs feel about sales pitches?
Do they have legitimate complaints?
When do these legitimate complaints cross the line to sounding entitled?
Do CISOs need to show a little more empathy to sales?

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, SquareX

309 episodes

#Security #Software Development #Tech News #Cybersecurity #Informationsecurity #David Spark #Tech #News #Geoff Belknap #Steve Zalewski #CISO #CISOSeries #InfoSec

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