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90 DAYS - A CISO’S
JOURNEY TO IMPACT:
DEFINE YOUR ROLE
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have a whole set of
hacking books and
hacking movies and
me and my buddies
get together all the time and say our
stories are way better,” says Pete
Nicoletti, Chief Data Officer at Cybraics
and former CISO at Hertz. “I made a
service where we would go way beyond
the vulnerability scan or pen test; We
would actually physically break into
a building and then, from the site,
typically break into the network and
show you where you’re vulnerable - so
not only your physical security systems
but also your network and internet
facing security system.
“We would write very comprehensive
reports; we were 100 percent successful
in breaking into buildings and acquiring
crown jewel information. We did banks;
we did very large companies. I've come
in through skylights, as well as walking
behind people in turnstiles… you name it.
I've invented lockpicks to break certain
types of locks that there wasn't a lock
pick for. Pretty crazy stuff.”
Few CISOs can draw on a background
as colorful as Mr. Nicoletti’s. Though
the cybersecurity world can seem like
a Hollywood script at times, when it
concerns state-sponsored espionage
or gangsters running drug empires
through the ‘dark web’, most of the day-
to-day is about patching vulnerabilities,
painstakingly seeking out security gaps
and reiterating the same basic security
advice to your colleagues. The target is
perfection, even if perfection can never
actually be achieved. u
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