Ask Me Anything: vCISO Strategy, IR, and Cyber Leadership | DailyCyber 281 ~ Watch Now ~

In this AMA edition of DailyCyber, I answer questions cybersecurity leaders face every day — from rebuilding income after a layoff to navigating account compromise scenarios.

This episode is packed with insights on mindset, leadership, communication, and technical decision-making.

🔥 Topics Covered

1️⃣ How I Rebuilt Income After a Layoff

• Turning a setback into a strategy

• Building momentum when everything restarts at zero

• Leveraging relationships without “selling”

• Mindset shifts for resilience in cybersecurity careers

2️⃣ How I Rebuilt My Cybersecurity Consulting Business

• The vCISO model and packaging expertise

• How to identify ideal clients

• Retainer building & predictable revenue

• Why trust, clarity, and specialization win

3️⃣ How To Sell a SIEM To Your Board — Quantify Downtime

• Boards buy business outcomes, not logs

• Framing SIEM value in terms of downtime, legal exposure, and financial impact

• Metrics that resonate with executives

• How to turn risk language into business language

4️⃣ Immediate Actions After an Account Compromise — And Why

• Session invalidation

• Identity isolation

• MFA & token checks

• Reviewing cloud logs and lateral movement indicators

• Rebuilding trust in the identity

5️⃣ When Fortinet Looks Like a Cyber Threat

• Why some Fortinet behavior resembles attacker traffic

• Logging quirks that cause SOC confusion

• Detecting real threats vs benign appliance behavior

• How to improve tool context for analysts

👤 Host:

Brandon Krieger — CEO & vCISO Advisor

🔗 www.linkedin.com/in/brandonkrieger

🔗 www.DailyCyber.ca

📺 Watch the episode: youtube.com/BrandonKrieger

🎧 Listen: DailyCyber.ca

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