People are the system

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Technology changes fast; human behavior does not. Influence outranks having the best technical answer.

Nearly a century old and still remarkably relevant, for a simple reason: technology changes quickly, and human behavior does not.

The higher you move in security leadership, the less your success depends on personally having the best technical answer, and the more it depends on getting an organization to move toward the right one.

We depend on engineering, infrastructure, IT, legal, product, finance, executives, and increasingly the people building and deploying AI systems. We may own the security program, but many of the decisions that determine its success happen somewhere else.

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