Being a CISO is Hard with Alan Levine, former CISO of Alcoa from CISOWise

Being a CISO is Hard with Alan Levine, former CISO of Alcoa

20 minutes Posted Dec 6, 2022 at 8:01 am.

— Welcome

— Introductions

— Surprises When Building A Cybersecurity Program

— Dealing With An Audit As A New CISO

— No Credit For Successes, Credit For Failure

— Making Friends And Allies

— Effective Actions And Controls

— User Awareness and BYOD

— Building Trust With Your Users

— The Most Misunderstood Part Of Being A CISO

— Sign Off

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In this week's episode Dr. Crane talks to Alan Levine about his experience building a cybersecurity program, what he got right, what he would do differently, and why being a CISO is hard.

Alan is the former CISO for two Fortune 500 companies, Alcoa and Arconic, with over 35 years of experience leading global cybersecurity programs. He is also a founding board instructor at the Carnegie Mellon CISO program where he lectures to current and rising CISOs on stories from the trenches.

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