AI won’t turn security into a headcount exercise

Most board's first instinct with AI is "Great! So we can cut 20% of our headcount?" I chat with Alex Stamos, former CISO at Facebook and Yahoo who currently runs product at Corridor about how reducing headcount has a longer history than people realize and takes us closer to the French Revolution than anyone should feel comfortable with.

Most of us got into security to be enablers, to help move the business and Make The World A Better Place™. This is a wave we can't slow down even if we wanted to, and the same tooling that displaces people is the tooling we're now on the hook to secure.

This episode of Threats, Pitfalls and Risk Myths, The TPRM Podcast is wide ranging, covering cheap exploits handing nation-state firepower to teenagers, why you can't patch your way out of what's coming, and whether Anthropic wants to be Amazon or Microsoft.

Alex's advice holds weight now than ever before: if you're comfortable, you're decaying. That was always true in tech. AI made it true everywhere.

Full episode with Alex Stamos linked below.