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Brian Weidner

Brian Weidner

InfoSec Certifications, Home Labs, and the Skills That Actually Get You Hired

InfoSec Certifications, Home Labs, and the Skills That Actually Get You Hired

Most people trying to break into cybersecurity spend too much time debating which certification to get next and not enough time building the hands-on skills that hiring managers are actually filtering on. Certifications matter — they validate knowledge, signal commitment, and open doors with recruiters who use them as keyword

Breaking Into Information Security: The Complete Guide for Beginners

Breaking Into Information Security: The Complete Guide for Beginners

Information security is one of the most in-demand career fields in the world right now, and there is no gatekeeping requirement that says you need a computer science degree or twenty years of IT experience to get in. What the field actually needs and what it is actively hiring

Project Glasswing & Claude Mythos: What CISOs Need to Know Right Now

Project Glasswing & Claude Mythos: What CISOs Need to Know Right Now

Anthropic just released the most capable offensive cybersecurity AI ever built, found thousands of previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser, and then decided the model was too dangerous to release to the public. That is not a hypothetical scenario. That is what happened on

AI Governance Deep Dive: Building the Committee That Actually Governs

AI Governance Deep Dive: Building the Committee That Actually Governs

A colleague described an AI governance committee meeting that lasted two hours and accomplished almost nothing. There were twelve people in the room: IT, Legal, HR, a couple of business unit leaders, and a handful of security folks. Everyone had opinions. No one had authority. The agenda was a loose

Stop Scanning. Start Managing Exposure: The CISO's Guide to Continuous Threat Exposure Management

Stop Scanning. Start Managing Exposure: The CISO's Guide to Continuous Threat Exposure Management

Picture this: It is a Tuesday afternoon. Your vulnerability management team pulls up the weekly report. Sixty-three thousand open vulnerabilities across your environment. Your patch team closes out five hundred this week — a solid sprint by any measure. Everyone nods. The meeting ends. You walk out feeling like you

White House National AI Policy Framework: What CISOs Need to Know and Do Now

White House National AI Policy Framework: What CISOs Need to Know and Do Now

The White House released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence on March 20, 2026, and every CISO needs to read past the headlines. The document is not a law. It is not a regulation. It is a set of legislative recommendations directed at Congress — non-binding by design — outlining

IAM Metrics in Practice: Real Numbers, Real Scenarios, Real Conversations

IAM Metrics in Practice: Real Numbers, Real Scenarios, Real Conversations

A companion post to: IAM Metrics That Actually Matter: Proving Risk Reduction and Value to Every Level of the Organization The previous post laid out the framework: which IAM metrics matter, why they matter, and how to use them to tell a risk reduction and value story that resonates at