CornCon_11 FRI-T1-9:45 CISO Panel: Kevin Novak, Bruce Phillips, Paul Rice

## Overview CornCon's self-moderated CISO "ask me anything" panel (one speaker absent) shares candid views from practitioners in banking, legal, and enterprise security.

## Daily Challenges Incident prioritization and triage dominate when every alert isn't equal. No two days match a Franklin Planner—fires constantly displace planned work. One CISO notes aerospace discipline doesn't survive modern security operations.

## Business Integration Effective CISOs spend more time communicating up and across the business than with technology teams. A long-tenured panelist began by asking the founder "what can I do to help you?" rather than prescribing a security roadmap.

## Takeaways Leadership, stakeholder trust, and triage judgment matter as much as tooling—invest in relationships before the next incident.