Rethink Cyber Risk: The Cast with Sarah Armstrong-Smith

Senior security leaders make judgment calls every day with no precedent and no peers in the room to check against. We wanted to know what happens when one of them works through a risk scenario out loud, in real time, in front of an audience. So, we built a format for it.

In this episode, Sarah Armstrong-Smith brings three decades of front-line experience in security and crisis management to navigate an employee's upload of an entire document library into a company-wide AI assistant without classification review.

Key moments:

• Sarah's "golden thread" frame for reasoning through cascading decisions when the plan you had stops applying
• A deliberately controversial question about whether the Security Operations Center is doing the job we think it's doing
• The three words Sarah ends every crisis conversation with

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