My favorite takeaway from the #GCSI conference last week was "to be a successful leader, you must be 'nose in, fingers out.'"

I wrote a post about this fantastic CISO-focused event:

https://blog.gitguardian.com/gcsi-2026

Panel on Cybersecurity for highly regulated areas Healthcare, Fintech and Insurance

Richard Warner, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Mahmood Khan, CISO, CNA
Karen Habercross, Vice President, CISO and Privacy Officer
Randy Armknecht, MD, Protiviti
Tellis Williams, Seasoned CISO

#GCSI 2026

#GCSI 2026

Board Level discussions – Elevating Cybersecurity as a Strategic Business Priority
With
Laszlo Gonc, Founder/CEO, Next Era Transformation Group)
Robert Barr, PDA Board member
Bob Kress, Retired MD at The Accenture Security
Wendy Betts, Information Security Officer, Rotary International

#GCSI 2026

Fireside Chat - AI Reshaping Cybersecurity
with David Neuman, Chief Operating Officer at Acceligence
and Nicole Beebe, Dean, College of Computing, Illinois Tech

#GCSI 2026

CxO Panel – Securing supply chains amid opacity and concentration risks
with
Moderator: Mark Rorabaugh, CEO, InfraShield
Stephen Reynolds, McDermott, Will Schulte
Terry Kurzynski, HALOCK
Matt Hartzman, Hartzman Partners

I have a couple public talks over the next week! I will be speaking at #WildWestHackinFest South Dakota https://wildwesthackinfest.com/ about the 'dark secrets' about cybersecurity career hunting I have learned across years of mentoring.

I will also be at #GCSI @ MXD 2023
https://gcsichicago.org/ in Chicago speaking on incident response tabletop exercises for OT.

Hope to see you at one!