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Niall Heffernan: How to Empower Your Security Operations Team to Focus on Higher Value Strategic Work

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In our sixth episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas speaks with Niall Heffernan, Head of Security at Cygnvs, a former Senior Manager of Information Security at Informatica, and a Lecturer for BSc, HDIP, PGDip and MSc students studying in the Cyber Security streams at the National College of Ireland.

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • Niall’s view on the current state of security operations and how it’s evolved over the past 5 years.
  • What’s top of mind for Niall as he begins building a security operations team from scratch.
  • How to prioritize incidents and determining what detections can be ignored using automation.
  • What most security practitioners get wrong when they embark on bringing the power of automation to their security program.
  • Lessons that security can learn from software engineering.
  • How security changes when an organization goes public and why the stakes become so high.
  • What can be done to solve the security talent shortage gap.
  • Niall’s #1 piece of advice for security leaders and and practitioners.
  • What’s in store for the future of security operations and why the traditional levels of security analysts will change.
  continue reading

46 episodes

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In our sixth episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas speaks with Niall Heffernan, Head of Security at Cygnvs, a former Senior Manager of Information Security at Informatica, and a Lecturer for BSc, HDIP, PGDip and MSc students studying in the Cyber Security streams at the National College of Ireland.

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • Niall’s view on the current state of security operations and how it’s evolved over the past 5 years.
  • What’s top of mind for Niall as he begins building a security operations team from scratch.
  • How to prioritize incidents and determining what detections can be ignored using automation.
  • What most security practitioners get wrong when they embark on bringing the power of automation to their security program.
  • Lessons that security can learn from software engineering.
  • How security changes when an organization goes public and why the stakes become so high.
  • What can be done to solve the security talent shortage gap.
  • Niall’s #1 piece of advice for security leaders and and practitioners.
  • What’s in store for the future of security operations and why the traditional levels of security analysts will change.
  continue reading

46 episodes

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