David Hahn says security teams should stop waiting for invitations and embed themselves across the organization. Reach out to product teams, finance, HR, and technology partners to understand business direction and show how security touches every function, not just IT.
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get in front, you know, go seek out your technology partners, go seek your product people, even the CFO and, you know, head of HR. I've had more conversations with all these, you know, kind of different areas and they'll first be like, oh, you know, do we have a security problem? Like, no, no, it's okay. Tell, I want to know more about where's the business going? What are we doing? You know, what are the issues that are facing? So if you start thinking about, you know, cyber We touch every part of the organization. There's nothing that we don't have something that we go through. And so part of that is making sure that you know what's going on. So you have to make the effort. So don't sit back again, wait for an invite that's not going to come, you know, get yourself invited, go to and talk to all the different leaders, all the different groups there, and then find out what they're doing.