The Future of Security Operations Niall Heffernan: How to Empower Your Security Operations Team to Focus on Higher Value Strategic Work
Jun 6, 2022
35:22
In our sixth episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas speaks with Niall Heffernan, Head of Security at Cygnvs, a former Senior Manager of Information Security at Informatica, and a Lecturer for BSc, HDIP, PGDip and MSc students studying in the Cyber Security streams at the National College of Ireland.
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Niall’s view on the current state of security operations and how it’s evolved over the past 5 years.
- What’s top of mind for Niall as he begins building a security operations team from scratch.
- How to prioritize incidents and determining what detections can be ignored using automation.
- What most security practitioners get wrong when they embark on bringing the power of automation to their security program.
- Lessons that security can learn from software engineering.
- How security changes when an organization goes public and why the stakes become so high.
- What can be done to solve the security talent shortage gap.
- Niall’s #1 piece of advice for security leaders and and practitioners.
- What’s in store for the future of security operations and why the traditional levels of security analysts will change.