Coleen Coolidge, ex-CISO of Segment and Twilio and startup advisor, didn't start in cybersecurity - she was a new project manager who got thrown into the deep end, but that discomfort launched an 18-year career that would see her build security teams from scratch at companies like Segment and Twilio. Now advising early-stage startups, Coleen shares insights about why security teams fail, how to actually talk to executives about risk, and why most founders are solving the wrong problems.
0:00 Coleen’s cybersecurity origin story
5:40 Transforming security chaos into a reusable security blueprint
19:27 Pull in key business leaders to endorse your plan
22:56 Convert your security gaps and desired outcomes into vendor requirements
25:54 Where to start if you want a risk-based journey
31:49 The dangerous allure of “shiny new things” in security
45:36 Why you need to stay open and curious in security
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