Here is a six minute video of our best moments from CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Promises of Automation: An hour of critical thinking of what manual repetitive tasks we can automate, and what we can’t.”
Our guest for this discussion were:
- Leonid Belkind (@Torq_IO ), CTO, Torq
- Brian Lozada (@BrianL1775), CISO, HBOMax
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HUGE thanks to our sponsor Torq
Best Bad Idea
Congrats to Hadas Cassorla, CISO, M1 Finance for winning this week’s Best Bad Idea.
Other honorable mentions go to:
“Automate everything so you can play video games all day.” – Dustin Sachs, manager, information security, Performance Food Group
“Automate outsourcing the people you use to automate your outsourcing.” – Kim Kennedy, editor, evangelist, H4UNT3D Hacker
“Keep automating until employees agree every day is like a weekend day.” – John Gallagher, vice president, Viakoo, Inc.
10 percent better
“Alert security team if a new privileged user is added (e.g., domain admin, Administrators, uid 0, etc.).” – Jean-Michel Amblat, information security
“Look at your most repetitive (rinse and repeat) processes and start there.” – Craig Hurter, director security operations, Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology
“Automate the discovery of rote tasks.” – John Prokap, principal consultant, Prokap Advisory LLC
“Best automation is looking at what your people hate doing. It’s probably a repetitive task. That should be automated.” – Hadas Cassorla, CISO, M1 Finance
Quotes from the chat room
“Automated processes should be documented fully so everyone understands WHAT is being done, WHY it is done, WHAT is the result expected to be? and WHY did this task get created?” – David Peach, CISO, head of information risk, The Economist Group
“The most time consuming and repetitive tasks are hopefully going to be obvious to all/most of the team. But look at common Jira tickets, common email questions, and common slack topics.” David Peach, CISO, head of information risk, The Economist Group