In this episode of the Digital Trust podcast, hosts Christian Redshaw and Rossilyne Tan speak with Kelly Hood, co-founder of Optic Cyber Solutions.
Kelly shares her unique career path from chemical engineering to cybersecurity and highlights the challenges of being a security professional. She emphasizes that cybersecurity is often seen as a barrier by IT teams and should be viewed as a puzzle with many pieces, not just a collection of tools. Kelly advises IT professionals to use structured frameworks like NIST to guide their efforts, ensuring they have a comprehensive strategy that prioritizes risks and balances technology with people and processes.
Kelly Hood truly enjoyed recording with Christian Redshaw and Rossilyne Tan on the The Digital Trust Podcast.
We focused on how security shows up in real organizations and how cybersecurity isn’t just a technical issue… it’s a business challenge.
The cybersecurity puzzle
We talked about careers, frameworks, and why security only works when you understand how the pieces fit together (not just the controls themselves).
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