On Today’s episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas speaks with Jason Barnes — the former Head of Global Security Operations at Netskope and current Senior Director at Charter Communications.

*Note: this episode was recorded in late May 2022, prior to Jason departing from Netskope*

Topics discussed in this episode:

- How Jason describes the current state of security operations and how its evolved over the past 10 years.

- What Netskope’s SOC team is focused on and what Jason’s day to day look like.

- How Jason helps his team prioritize where to focus their time and resources.

- Jason’s philosophy around automation and the power it can bring to a security operations team.

- Tips for helping security operations team reduce the time spent on low value manual tasks (outside of automation).

- Jason’s prediction for what the future of the SOC will look like.

- How Netskope focuses on mental health and burnout and the resources the company offers to team members.

- #1 piece of advice for security operations leaders at fast-growing tech

Resources mentioned: Jason’s blog: https://www.netskope.com/blog/author/jbarnes