Naor Penso – Founder of Toast, & former CTO of Cyber Security at AMDOCS

Cyber security is an issue keeping an awful lot of IT executives up at night. And rightly so. Today's threat landscape is increasingly hostile, the cyber security skills gap continues widening, and budgets aren't keeping pace with the demand for better defensive measures. It's a perilous situation exacerbated by the astounding fact that many C-suite executives don't take the need for cyber security seriously, until a high-profile incident occurs on their watch. Gaining a better understanding of the dynamics shaping this domain requires insight from a cyber security expert like Naor Penso, Founder of Toast (a cyber security startup currently in stealth mode), and former CTO of Cyber Security at AMDOCS, a global telecommunications services company. In this episode, Naor breaks down for us why cyber security professionals should view automation as an asset in their never-ending struggle against bad actors, what metrics IT security executives should focus on when evaluating the effectiveness of automating security operations, and why automation is one of only two realistic ways to mitigate the cyber security talent shortage.