KnowBe4’s Dylan White: How to Use Automation to Remove Mundane Manual Security Tasks and Make Your Team 5x More Effective
The Future of Security OperationsShow Notes
In our fifth episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas speaks with Dylan White, an Information Security Engineer at KnowBe4 — a leading security awareness training platform. Topics Discussed: What KnowBe4 does and the problem they solve for organizations. The most common lures hackers are using today to trick users. Dylan’s favorite phishing test of all time — and why it was so effective. How to build a culture that takes responsibility for security and why leaders need to make it clear it’s okay if mistakes are made. How to make security more approachable for the entire organization. The state of security automation today and why Dylan is so excited about endless possibilities that automation makes possible for security teams. Manual and mundane tasks that Dylan’s been able to automate and free his team from spending (and wasting) their time on. How automation has made his team 5x more effective. What Dylan sees security practitioners get wrong about security automation. Dylan’s advice for security leaders and how they can set their teams up for success with automation. What’s in store for the future of security automation.
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