Be Fearless Podcast by SquareX
SquareX is excited to launch The Be Fearless Podcast Series, where we bring together industry experts and professionals from the cybersecurity community.
Hosted by SquareX Founder - and cybersecurity veteran - Vivek Ramachandran, look forward to insights about our guests’ journeys in security, the evolution of the field, the changing threatscape and how enterprises across industries are addressing them today.
Be Fearless Podcast by SquareX
Why Business-Aligned Security Wins | Coleen Coolidge, ex-CISO Segment and Twilio, Startup Advisor
Coleen Coolidge, ex-CISO of Segment and Twilio and startup advisor, didn't start in cybersecurity - she was a new project manager who got thrown into the deep end, but that discomfort launched an 18-year career that would see her build security teams from scratch at companies like Segment and Twilio. Now advising early-stage startups, Coleen shares insights about why security teams fail, how to actually talk to executives about risk, and why most founders are solving the wrong problems.
0:00 Coleen’s cybersecurity origin story
5:40 Transforming security chaos into a reusable security blueprint
19:27 Pull in key business leaders to endorse your plan
22:56 Convert your security gaps and desired outcomes into vendor requirements
25:54 Where to start if you want a risk-based journey
31:49 The dangerous allure of “shiny new things” in security
45:36 Why you need to stay open and curious in security
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