In this video interview, Nick Kakolowski, senior director for CISO research at IANS, talks AI: budgets, ROI, and changes inside security teams.
In this video interview, Nick Kakolowski, senior director for CISO research at IANS, talks AI: budgets, ROI, and changes inside security teams.
In context
- Topic: Ciberseguridad — Riesgo, identidad, respuesta a incidentes y cumplimiento.
- Source: Dark Reading
- Published: 06/10/2026
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Why it matters
Most incidents that end up being expensive did not start with a sophisticated technique. They started with an account that should have been closed when somebody resigned, a server nobody knew was still on, or a broad permission granted to unblock someone that then stayed forever.
My way of reading these cases is to ask what failed in the process, not what failed in the machine. Behind nearly every incident there is a reasonable decision taken under pressure: granting a permission to unblock somebody, postponing an update because it was month-end. That is where the lesson lives.
What usually goes wrong
Where it usually breaks is response, not prevention. There are tools, there are alerts, and when something real happens nobody knows who decides to disconnect, who gets called first, or what the customer is told. Valuable hours get lost arguing about that while the problem grows.
What to watch
- How long it took to detect, usually the most revealing metric in the whole case.
- Whether initial access came from a legitimate account handled badly, which is the most frequent pattern.
- What could be restored and how fast — a backup that was never tested does not count.
How I read this entry
I would use it for a conversation with the board, not with the technical team. The question you must be able to answer there is how long the business can operate without its systems and what each day of that outage costs. With that number, the security budget gets discussed differently.
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Living through this in your own team?
Open the chat and tell me how you're handling it. I'm interested in comparing notes.
