Tag: Hiring
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Building a Virtual CISO Program in 2026
The virtual CISO program in 2026 sits as the program the small enterprise has been quietly turning to, the program the consultant has been quietly building, the program the auditor has been quietly accepting.
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The Resume Gap: Why Tech Hiring Is About to Get Weirder
The interview loop has not changed since 2015. The job the loop is hiring for has changed three times in the last three years. That gap is the story of tech hiring in 2026.
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AI Coding: The Six Month Retrospective
AI coding in 2026 sits six months past the peak of the hype cycle, with the real data starting to come in, with the real data telling a more complicated story than the marketing suggested. The six month retrospective covers the productivity numbers, the incident numbers, the hiring numbers, and the architecture numbers, with each…
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Why Tech People Don’t Read Anymore, and What the Data Actually Shows
The death of long form technical reading is a complaint, not a measurement. The actual data shows the audience is concentrating, not collapsing, and the people still reading are the people still building the things being written about.
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The CISO Handbook: The Second Edition
The first edition sold the idea that the CISO could be a peer to the CIO. The second edition quietly walks that back. The role has shifted, the board has shifted, the threat has shifted, and the playbook that worked in 2020 does not work in 2026.
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The CISO Resignation Letter
The CISO resignation letter has become a genre. The reasons are depressingly consistent: not enough authority, not enough budget, not enough board attention, then a breach, then a quiet exit. The pattern repeats because the role has not been fixed. The resignation serves as the symptom, not the cause.
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A Field Guide to the CISO Board Deck
The CISO board deck in 2026 amounts to the document the CISO presents to the board 4 times per year, with the deck determining whether the CISO gets the budget, the headcount, the mandate. The deck that works is the deck that answers the 4 questions the board asks, with the 12 slides that fit…
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A Field Guide to the CISO’s First 90 Days
The new CISO has 90 days to figure out what the security program actually does, what it does not, and what the board needs to know. Here is the playbook.
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Vibe Coding and the Hiring Pipeline
Vibe coding changed the hiring pipeline for the entry level software engineer in 2026. The entry level jobs that existed in 2024 do not exist in 2026. The entry level skills that mattered in 2024 do not matter in 2026. The hiring pipeline that worked in 2024 does not work in 2026. The state of…
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The Claude Code Effect on the Engineering Org
Claude Code and the other agentic coding tools have changed what an engineering team looks like. The senior engineer writes the prompt. The junior engineer runs the code. The middle engineer is being squeezed out.