Please join us on Friday January 30, 2026 for Super Cyber Friday.
Our topic of discussion will be “Hacking Employee Retention: An hour of critical thinking about how to keep and develop your talent.”
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Joining David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series for this discussion will be:
- Andy Ellis, principal, Duha
- Peter Gregory, best-selling cybersecurity author
In preparation for our discussion, think about the following:
- What are the most common ways security teams accidentally signal to top performers that they should start looking elsewhere?
- How do you recognize when your retention strategy has moved from genuine development to just throwing perks at people hoping they’ll stay?
- What’s the real relationship between compensation and retention in security roles? When does paying more actually solve the problem versus just delay the inevitable?
- How should security leaders think about investing in people who might leave versus the cost of not investing and watching them stagnate?
- How do you balance building deep expertise through tenure with the reality that some of your best people need to leave to grow?
- Why do we treat retention as an HR problem when it’s often a leadership and culture problem?
- How do you make the business case for retention investments when leadership can always just “backfill the role”?
- Is there such a thing as healthy turnover in security teams, or should we always fight to keep everyone?
- What would need to change about how security teams operate to make retention less of a constant battle?
It all starts at 1 PM Eastern/10 AM Pacific. At the end of the hour [2 PM Eastern/11 AM Pacific] we’ll switch gears to our meetup where everyone will get a chance to chat face to face.
ALSO…
- We play games during the show, and some players can win prizes! Players in the US can receive prizes as gifts; those outside the US can win gift cards.
Super Cyber Fridays are open discussions where all viewers and listeners are welcome to become participants. Before the scheduled event, connect your webcam and microphone (avoid Bluetooth). During the discussion, if you have a question or comment, let it be known in the chat room and our producer will do his best to get as many of you into the conversation. We look forward to you joining us.