Former CIA Spy Turned CISO: Why Most Security Budgets Fail

ABSTRACT: What if you could save your company thousands to millions in wasted cybersecurity spending? That’s not hype, it’s the reality when you stop treating spending dollars like a bottomless pit and start treating it like a business strategy.
Most executives assume the more money they throw at cybersecurity, the safer they’ll be. Wrong. In fact, the bigger your budget, the more likely you’re bleeding cash on shelfware, pointless meetings, and “solutions” that solve nothing. This talk flips the script: it shows you how to slash costs, cut risk, and still move faster than your competition.

Featured Speaker

Ross Young
From CIA spy to CISO, Ross Young has spent two decades pushing the boundaries of cybersecurity. Ross is the CEO of Clear Capabilities Inc, co-host of CISO Tradecraft, creator of the OWASP Threat and Safeguard Matrix (TaSM), and a seasoned cybersecurity leader. He has served as CISO in Residence at Team8, CISO of Caterpillar Financial, and an instructor at Johns Hopkins University. Previously, Ross was a divisional CISO at Capital One and has over a decade of cybersecurity experience across CIA, NSA, and the Federal Reserve Board.