Niall Heffernan: How to Empower Your Security Operations Team to Focus on Higher Value Strategic Work

In our sixth episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas speaks with Niall Heffernan, Head of Security at Cygnvs, a former Senior Manager of Information Security at Informatica, and a Lecturer for BSc, HDIP, PGDip and MSc students studying in the Cyber Security streams at the National College of Ireland. 

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Niall’s view on the current state of security operations and how it’s evolved over the past 5 years.
• What’s top of mind for Niall as he begins building a security operations team from scratch. 
• How to prioritize incidents and determining what detections can be ignored using automation. 
• What most security practitioners get wrong when they embark on bringing the power of automation to their security program. 
• Lessons that security can learn from software engineering. 
• How security changes when an organization goes public and why the stakes become so high.  
• What can be done to solve the security talent shortage gap.
• Niall’s #1 piece of advice for security leaders and and practitioners. 
• What’s in store for the future of security operations and why the traditional levels of security analysts will change.