The Monica Talks Cyber Show
The Monica Talks Cyber Show
Monica Verma
How a CISO Survived The SEC Lawsuit, Nation-State Cyber Attack and SolarWinds Breach | ft. Tim Brown
1 hour 41 minutes Posted Apr 28, 2026 at 4:00 am.
Meet Tim Brown, CISO of SolarWinds
The SolarWinds Attack: Russian SVR, 18,000 Customers, and SUNBURST
"It Happened On My Watch": Inside a CISO's Worst Day
Crisis Response: Building the Team When Everything Is On Fire
Transparency vs Legal Risk: Why Tim Took Hundreds of Calls
"We Work for the Company, Not You": When the Lawyers Show Up
The Wells Notice: The SEC Starts Coming for Tim Brown
Heart Attack in Zurich: The Day He Found Out He Was Charged
The Settlement Offer Tim Refused: "It Would Corrupt My Soul"
The Judge Dismisses 90%: A Legal Win Nobody Had Seen Before
Is the CISO Role Still Worth It? Tim's Honest Answer
Documentation: The CISO's Most Underrated Legal Defense
AI vs AI: How Do You Defend Against an Autonomous Cyber Attack?
Tim's Final Message to Every Current and Aspiring CISO
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The SEC charged a CISO personally for a cyberattack. Not the company. The individual, Tim Brown. Tim fought back, and won. In the age of AI, every security and business leader needs to ask: Am I next? When the SolarWinds supply chain attack hit in 2020, Tim Brown became one of the first CISOs in history to face personal SEC charges. That case changed the conversation around CISO accountability permanently. With AI inside your enterprise, making decisions, generating outputs and influencing ri...