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Why 200,000 Cybersecurity Professionals Give Me Hope

23 Jul 2026 1 minute read 2 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Today I have reached 200,000 followers on LinkedIn. My deepest and most sincere thanks to all my colleagues and followers for all the great conversations, sharing of personal insights, and the deep collaboration over the years! When I started postin...

Artificial Intelligence, Patience in L.E.A.D.E.R.S.H.I.P, Fun

20 Jul 2026 3 minute read 0 comments mildandred

In "Having fun is the new moat" Justin Welsh notes that: "Intense passion was a nice-to-have, or faked through a well-orchestrated "founder story." But AI has flipped all that on its head...Discipline and competence are getting easy to replace." I th...

The Mythos Effect on Cybersecurity and Board Engagement

15 Jul 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

The Cybersecurity Vault — Episode 29, with guest Edna Conway, former Chief Security Officer at Cisco, VP-Chief Security & Risk Officer for Microsoft Cloud, and who currently sits on multiple Boards of Directors and actively advises industry executiv...

The Team that Failed

10 Jul 2026 7 minute read 4 comments rah

When I was living in Albania in 1995- 1996 one of the last activities I participated in was a training / integration task which the team had to complete. From the Rreshen Base Team, there were three of us; Rachel, Paulin and me and we had also invite...

Artificial Intelligence, A24, L.E.A.D.E.R.S.H.I.P, Privacy, Venice AI

5 Jul 2026 3 minute read 0 comments mildandred

A24, a company that "that prides itself on getting filmmakers the tools they need to complete their visions" has partnered with Google Deepmind. In 'What You Need to Know About A24's Partnership with Google DeepMind' Jason Hellerman writes that "it b...

Top 10 Cybersecurity Influencers

3 Jul 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist

Congratulations to the Top 10 Cybersecurity Influencers listed in Cyber Magazine! Sarah Armstrong-Smith Chuck Brooks Keren Elazari Lisa Forte John Hammond Troy Hunt Brian Krebs Katie Moussouris Jack Rhysider Matthew Rosenquist...

What Leaders Should Actually Do

11 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments rah

Following on from yesterday’s post in which we saw the five qualities that make a good leader we are going to move on today to look at what a good leader actually does. But just before that a quick reminder of the five qualities. Authenticity Abili...

What does it take to be a good leader?

10 Apr 2026 3 minute read 0 comments rah

In yesterday’s article we spent some time looking at what makes a high quality employee. Now we are going to move on, using a similar framework (based on Jack Welch again) to look at what makes a good leader. Again, we are going to start by looking a...

Cybersecurity Can Learn from the Artemis Launch

2 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

The Artemis II mission, bringing humans back to the Moon, had a successful launch today! An amazing cumulation of efforts to manage the mindboggling combination of risks to push a massive rocket into space, in preparation for a trip to orbit the Moo...

9 Cybersecurity Questions that Define a CISO

16 Jan 2026 1 minute read 1 comment Matthew Rosenquist

The Cybersecurity Vault — episode 52, with guest Wil Klusovsky. Wil discusses the essential questions that CEOs should be asking their CISOs. He explores the importance of effective communication between technical and business perspectives, the need...