CC13: CISO Village - "Identifying and Navigating the Risks of Executive Debt"

Описание: Learn why you can’t eliminate technical debt until you tackle executive debt—and get the playbook for spotting it before it sinks your security program.

Decisions made (or not made) in the boardroom create hidden liabilities that no patch cycle can fix. Drawing on audits of 400+ companies and his new book Executive Debt, Mark Dallmeier explains how to trace risk back to leadership blind spots—and how security teams can drive change without getting “shot as the messenger.”

Key takeaways
Executive Debt vs Technical Debt – how short-term, ego-driven choices create long-term cyber-risk.
Common executive-debt patterns – risk avoidance, single-view leadership, siloed communication.
Debt-Sherpa exercise – an in-session game that maps debts to practical fixes.
Influence tactics – turning business impact, revenue loss, and personal coaching into catalysts for change.
Free toolkit – Excel scorecard, heat-map spider chart, and survey to measure executive debt in your org.

00:00 Speaker introduction & background
00:20 Topic overview: technical & executive debt
02:04 Defining executive debt vs technical debt
04:00 Understanding risk creation & decision impact
05:10 Accountability gap: why executive debt persists
06:01 Visualizing exec debt: resistance to change
07:28 Interdependence: executive debt & technical debt
12:54 Introducing the Debt Sherpa game
14:09 Debt Sherpa gameplay: pick your risk card
23:13 Game debrief & self‑assessment overview
24:10 Closing reflections & key takeaways
24:40 Q&A session begins

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