7. Being a wartime CISO

Publisher and date: Risky Business, 6 March 2026. Who: James Wilson and Brad Arkin. Link: official episode page.

Source-based takeaway: the publisher's description addresses continuity questions involving people, offices, keys, cloud dependencies and physical disruption. It broadens the conversation beyond a single security console.

Buyer action — editorial: run a tabletop in which a site and its primary administrator are unavailable. Ask who has approved access to essential systems, which supplier dependencies remain, and how staff receive trustworthy instructions. Give the COO or continuity leader a role in the exercise.

Limit: the scenario is not a forecast that every US midmarket company faces wartime disruption. Use it to expose dependencies and assumptions, not to create unsupported urgency.