Cybersecurity's Broken Hiring Process

All links and images can be found on CISO Series. Check out this post by Dr. Chase Cunningham, CSO at Demo-Force, for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by me, David Spark , the producer of CISO Series , and Geoff Belknap . Joining us is Brett Conlon, CISO, American Century Investments . In this episode: The experience paradox Who benefits from the narrative Kitchen sink job postings The aggregation problem Huge thanks to our sponsor, Scanner All your security logs end up in cloud storage like AWS S3. Scanner makes them searchable in seconds and runs real-time detections directly on that data. No pipelines, no re-ingestion. 100x faster than traditional data lakes, 10x cheaper than SIEMs. Loved by analysts. Built for AI agents. Learn more at scanner.dev

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Cybersecurity's Broken Hiring Process is an episode from Defense in Depth by David Spark.

This episode is 32:45 long.

This episode was published on Feb 12, 2026.

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