Show notes
What does a 25-year cybersecurity career actually look like — and what does the CISO role require today when AI, regulatory pressure, and economic uncertainty all collide at once?Daniel Ayala is the Founder and Managing Partner of Secratic, a fractional CISO and Chief Privacy Officer consultancy. He's served as CISO at ProQuest, Interim CISO at Michigan State University, and today advises multiple SMBs simultaneously on security strategy, AI risk, and data privacy.In this episode, we talk about what it really takes to step into a CISO role, how the fractional CISO model works as a career path, why insider threat programs need a serious update in the AI era, and what practitioners pivoting into security leadership actually need to know.---**⏱ TIMESTAMPS**-