More Intuition, Less Bias

What is the lesson for organisational design today and is also why your next great cyber defender might not have a cyber degree. By the way, we should have been building this perspective across organisations for some time now.

Perhaps the real challenge in cyber isn’t technology. It’s designing organisations that make space for the misfits who have always saved us.

Don’t just hire for certificates and SOC playbook skills. Diversity and inclusion is essential for the impactful reason of increasing the number of perspectives one can bring to a problem. 

Seek out:

Backgrounds that have been outside IT (science, engineering, math).

Evidence of curiosity (home labs, side projects).

Comfort with ambiguity (long hunts, dead ends, pivots).

Coding ability (to create tools, not just use them).

Communication skills (to translate findings into action).

A sceptical and playful mindset (because attackers don’t follow rules either).

This is how you build threat hunters who catch what everyone else misses.

A common thread of success?

Curiosity, insistence, often annoyingly persistent and insubordinate or even heaven forbid, disobedient!

Exactly the kind of people org charts never get to show.