Welcome and Why Does Security Matter?

Jesse Trucks is the Minister of Magic at Splunk, where he consults on security and compliance program designs and develops Splunk architectures for security use cases, among other things. He brings more than 20 years of experience in tech to this role, having previously worked as director of security and compliance at Peak Hosting, a staff member at freenode, a cybersecurity engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and a systems engineer at D.E. Shaw Research, among several other positions. Of course, Jesse is also the host of Meanwhile in Security, the podcast about better cloud security you’re about to listen to. In this episode, Jesse establishes the foundation for an effective security approach while touching upon the importance of security as a mindset instead of a tool, how security is often driven by management or budgetary concerns, which results in waste and frustration, the importance of understanding the why behind security, why organizations often lose sight of the fact that their security plans aren’t the actual goal—protecting data and infrastructure is, Simon Sinek and the neuroscience behind why it’s important to know why you are doing something, how purchasing the right tool is wasted resources without a success plan for implementing said tool, and more.