What security leaders said, week 44

October 26, 2026 to November 1, 2026 · 31 entries from 24 leaders

Themes in our own words, drawn up on November 2, 2026 after the week ended from our labels and titles only, never from the posts themselves. Every person here is someone our record names as the current holder of a top security seat; role and company come from our record.

AI and agents

4 entries on AI tools, agents and their place in security programs.

October 30, 2026· LinkedIn post
David Raymond, Associate Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Virginia Tech
On an Amazon partnership advancing AI and cybersecurity
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October 29, 2026· LinkedIn post
Diana Kelley, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Noma Security
On a security leadership topic
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October 28, 2026· LinkedIn post
Patti Degnan, Chief Information Security Officer at Glow
On AI agents for defensive security use cases
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October 27, 2026· LinkedIn post
Natalia Oropeza, Global Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Siemens
On AI and cybersecurity
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Careers and leadership

1 entry on security careers, new roles and leading security teams.

November 1, 2026· LinkedIn post
Stephen Barnham, Group Chief Information Officer, Group Chief Digital Officer and Group Chief Information Security Officer at Daiichi Life Group
On leadership, transformation, and momentum
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Teams and talent

1 entry on hiring, skills and building security teams.

October 26, 2026· LinkedIn post
Hemant Baidwan, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Knox Systems
On cybersecurity as a team effort
Our take
The opening frames cybersecurity as a team sport, which puts the spotlight on how a security function works with the people around it rather than on the tools it runs. The visible text stops there, so we take only the framing and not the argument. For leaders in the seat, we agree the framing is useful and think the harder part is making it concrete. A team effort that stops at the security org chart is a slogan; one that gives engineering, legal, finance and HR a defined stake in outcomes is a programme. We would test it by asking who owns a risk decision when security is not in the room, and whether those people have the context and authority to make it well. We would also add that collaboration needs shared incentives, because teams only pull together when the cost of a miss is felt beyond the security budget.
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Other subjects

17 entries on other subjects in security leadership.

October 30, 2026· LinkedIn post
Sean Cassidy, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Plaid
On a cybersecurity industry event or speaking appearance
Our take
Conference stages are one of the few places where security leaders can say out loud what rarely makes it into vendor decks or board packs, and an invitation to speak is worth treating as an opportunity rather than a courtesy. The visible text of this post raises only the fact of a stage appearance this week, with no detail on the talk itself, so we take it as a prompt about speaking in public. Our view is that leaders should say yes more often, but with a plan: pick one operational lesson the audience can reuse, clear it with legal and communications beforehand, and keep detail on internal incidents general enough to protect colleagues. The hallway conversations afterwards often yield more than the session, so go with a short list of peers you want to meet. Finally, bring something back to the team in writing, because a talk that changes nothing at home was only a day out.
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October 30, 2026· LinkedIn post
Nitin Raina, Global Chief Information Security Officer at Thoughtworks
On a security leadership event
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October 30, 2026· LinkedIn post
Michael Palmer, Chief Information Security Officer at Hearst
On NFL industry connections and Hearst-Dreyfus ties
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October 29, 2026· LinkedIn post
Kim Larsen, group chief information security officer (CISO) at Keepit
On cyber resilience and digital resilience in cybersecurity
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October 29, 2026· LinkedIn post
Jacob DePriest, CISO & CIO at 1Password
On a leadership transition at a technology company
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October 29, 2026· LinkedIn post
David Raymond, Associate Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Virginia Tech
On Virginia Tech's IT security team recognition
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October 29, 2026· LinkedIn post
Aanchal Gupta, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Adobe
On cybersecurity awareness initiatives
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October 28, 2026· X post · @TySbano
Ty Sbano, Chief Information Security Officer at Webflow
On a company's security commitment across customer tiers
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October 28, 2026· LinkedIn post
Ty Sbano, Chief Information Security Officer at Webflow
On navigating a difficult week in the security industry
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October 28, 2026· LinkedIn post
Nitin Raina, Global Chief Information Security Officer at Thoughtworks
On a security leadership topic
Our take
Our take: The Global CISO of Thoughtworks has posted about a milestone, and the visible text shows only that something went live a month ago, with no detail on what. A launch month is when a security leader's work gets tested in the open, because assumptions made before go-live meet real users and real traffic. We would treat that first month as a deliberate checkpoint rather than a quiet afterthought: review which pre-launch risk acceptances still hold, which alerts proved noisy or silent, and which owners turned out to be unclear. Security leaders who share early lessons publicly also give peers something rare, an honest read on what survives contact with production. We would encourage more of it, and add that the strongest post-launch reviews record what the programme chose not to do yet, so the next quarter's priorities rest on evidence instead of memory.
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October 28, 2026· LinkedIn post
Denis Nesi, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Bradesco Seguros
On corporate spin-offs and organizational restructuring
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October 28, 2026· LinkedIn post
Alfredo Hickman, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Kai
On AI security and unprompted AI behavior
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October 26, 2026· X post · @_mwc
Michael Coates, Chief Information Security Officer at Solana Foundation
On slash-command invocation syntax for skills
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October 26, 2026· X post · @alexstamos
Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer at Cognition
On a security leadership topic
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October 26, 2026· LinkedIn post
Heather Ceylan, Chief Information Security Officer at Box
On career aspirations and childhood narratives
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October 26, 2026· LinkedIn post
Eric Freeman, Chief Information Security Officer at WRITER
On a security leadership topic
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October 26, 2026· LinkedIn post
Aman Sirohi, Chief Information Security Officer at Cyberhaven
On agentic AI and CISO considerations in Google Cloud
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Also this week

8 entries added to the record after these themes were drawn up.

November 1, 2026· LinkedIn post
Gerald Beuchelt, Chief Information Security Officer at Keyfactor
On Linux patch management in cybersecurity
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November 1, 2026· LinkedIn post
Henrik Smith, Chief Information Security Officer at Infoblox
On a security leadership topic
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November 1, 2026· LinkedIn post
Gerald Beuchelt, Chief Information Security Officer at Keyfactor
On identity and access management in cybersecurity and data breach prevention
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November 1, 2026· X post · @alexstamos
Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer at Cognition
On generational perspectives shared within a family conversation
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November 1, 2026· X post · @alexstamos
Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer at Cognition
On unusual real-world cybersecurity quotes
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October 31, 2026· LinkedIn post
Gerald Beuchelt, Chief Information Security Officer at Keyfactor
On vulnerability management in cybersecurity
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October 30, 2026· LinkedIn post
Bertrum Carroll, Chief Information Security Officer at State of Nevada
On a Microsoft security immersion certification
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October 29, 2026· LinkedIn post
Mandy Andress, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Elastic
On a security leadership topic
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