In this episode, Malcolm Harkins speaks with Eric McNulty.  Eric is co-author of the book, You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When it Matters Most  and author of Three Critical Shifts in Thinking for the Evolving Leader  and Your Critical First 10 Days as a Leader .  Eric has written more than 200 bylined articles on leadership, decision-making, and negotiation in top journals.  He holds an appointment as associate director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI), a joint program of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government . Eric teaches in numerous executive education and graduate level courses at Harvard as well as at M.I.T and the University of California, San Diego. In 2018, he was named a Trust Across America Top Thought Leader in Trust.

Malcolm and Eric discuss crisis management and leadership based on a wide range of issues that Eric has been involved with over the years from Hurricane Sandy, the Deep Water Horizon oil spill, and even the Boston Bombing.  Eric shares pragmatic tips and perspectives that will help us all do a better job at leading - sense making, meaning making, and creating islands of certainty amid the chaos.  

Guest: Eric McNulty  (2) Eric McNulty | LinkedIn
Host: Malcolm Harkins https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolmharkins/

In this episode, Malcolm Harkins speaks with Norm Fjeldheim, former CIO for Qualcomm and more recently he was the CIO for Illumina.   Malcolm & Norm talk about a wide range of items including recalling their first time meeting on an advisory board back years ago.  We discuss what it was like working for market competitors (Intel and Qualcomm) and how we worked together on cyber security - sharing information to help protect each other as well as help protect other organizations.  Information sharing in the cyber security space has improved a lot over the years but still poses challenges for some who are constrained by either their own worry about sharing information or  other organizational restrictions.  We both believe our organizations were better off by taking the risk to partner together on cyber security.  We discuss how Norm approached information security as a CIO and how the CISO was integral to the organizations he has led.  We talk about accountability and the lack of it at times including in many well publicized breaches such as SolarWinds, Sony, and Equifax,  We discuss that in some cases there is clear negligence on the part of the CIO, CISO, or other exec's in an organization.    We discuss our perspectives on public policy items including the need for some sort of cyber security integrity regulation that instills more direct accountability on public companies.  We explore how sometimes the compliance and audit perspectives on risk don't always align well to a rationale perspective on risk.  Norm shares his perspective on needing a constant culture of change to re-evaluate your security technology - upgrading and moving to new tech routinely to stay on top of risk issues.  

Guest: Norm Fjeldheim Norm Fjeldheim | LinkedIn
Host: Malcolm Harkins https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolmharkins/

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In this episode, Malcolm Harkins speaks with Rick Payne , an Info Sec engineer with RMS.  Rick has spent the past 15 or so years 15 years learning and doing.  Starting as an intern to a DevOps technician, to  Security Analyst, to  Architect, to CSO, and is now a  cloud focused Staff Information Security Engineer.   His foundation is standards-based and rooted in DevOps automation and Systems Security Engineering (SSE).   Giving back and improving the community is a passion for Rick.  Rick shares his perspective on DevSecOps and we discuss the friction that gets in the way at times of really aligning security in to the development and operational efforts in an operation.  Rick shares his perspective on SMB as well and the incremental security approaches taken by many vs. the transformational things that we need to be doing.   Rick shares from his experiences a wide variety of lessons learned and the approach he is taking to lead transformational change to improve security.  

Guest:  Rick Payne (1) Rick Payne CISSP, RHCE | LinkedIn
Host: Malcolm Harkins https://www.linkedin.com/in/malcolmharkins/