Leadership
Four Lessons From a Founder to Build and Scale a Cybersecurity Company That Lasts
In the early stages of building a business, even experienced leaders don’t know if they will succeed. Many start with strong ideas, yet 90% of startups fail. Pushing through requires hard work, ...
Ten Skills I Gained Building Tech Companies (That I Wish I’d Learned Sooner)
The ten skills that actually move the needle for tech founders, from a CIAM founder who scaled to a billion users and is now building in AI security ...
Why Human Error Is the Biggest Cybersecurity Risk and How Companies Can Prevent Breaches
With cybercrime projected to cost businesses $10.5 trillion in 2026, human error remains one of the most overlooked vulnerabilities in any security strategy. Even with the strongest security perimeter, a ...
Cybersecurity Can Learn from the Artemis Launch
Cybersecurity Can Learn from the Artemis LaunchThe Artemis II mission, bringing humans back to the Moon, had a successful launch today! An amazing cumulation of efforts to manage the mindboggling combination of risks ...
5 Actions Critical for Cybersecurity Leadership During International Conflicts
The recent military attacks involving Iran in the Middle East are a stark reminder that cybersecurity leadership must continually incorporate geopolitical risk into their enterprise cyber risk posture and preparedness.Every crisis that ...
Incubou and the Consolidation of Cybersecurity Leadership in Portugal
Cybersecurity has become a defining issue for European economies, shaped by regulatory pressure, geopolitical instability, and the digitization of critical systems. Once viewed primarily as a technical function, it is now closely ...
The Ethical Architect: Rules of Engagement for the Influential Leader
A professional social engineer who lacks ethics is just a con artist. A leader who lacks ethics is just a boss. To be a practitioner, you must have a code ...
The Operative’s Field Guide to Elicitation: Bypassing “The Filter”
In leadership, as in social engineering, the greatest obstacle to obtaining ground-truth intelligence is The Filter. This is the natural human tendency to sanitize information when speaking to authority. When ...
Managing Cognitive Load in High-Performance Leadership
As I mentioned in my recent LinkedIn Article, managing cognitive load in leadership is the difference between a high-performing executive and one who burns out. And ones who get stuck ...
Ai Proofing Your It/cyber Career: The Human Only Capabilities That Matter
In the past ~4 weeks I have personally observed some irrefutable things in “AI” that are very likely going to cause massive shocks to employment models in IT, software development, systems administration, ...
