{"id":239058,"date":"2026-05-04T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/the-elephants-in-the-technology-room\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T20:15:12","slug":"the-elephants-in-the-technology-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/the-elephants-in-the-technology-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elephants in the Technology Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfosecurity.com\/blogs\/elephants-in-technology-room-part-2-p-4111\">The Elephants in the Technology Room<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfosecurity.com\/blogs\/elephants-in-technology-room-part-2-p-4111\">https:\/\/www.govinfosecurity.com\/blogs\/elephants-in-technology-room-part-2-p-4111<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 16:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govinfosecurity.com\">www.govinfosecurity.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-muted\">\n                                                            Artificial Intelligence &#038; Machine Learning<br \/>\n                                                                ,<br \/>\n                                                                                CISO Trainings<br \/>\n                                                                ,<br \/>\n                                                                                Litigation\n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"article-sub-title\">Why Technical Leaders Are Walking Away and What We Can Do to Fix It<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"article-byline\"><br \/>\n                                            Krishna Bagla<\/p>\n<p>                                \u2022<br \/>\n                    <span class=\"text-nowrap\">May 4, 2026<\/span> \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                Image: Shutterstock            <\/p>\n<p>Chuck Norton was only a few months into his role as CISO at a major state university when he realized he&#8217;d made a terrible mistake, not because the job was difficult but because he&#8217;d just watched another security leader face criminal prosecution and understood that he had absolutely no legal protection if the same thing happened to him.<\/p>\n<p>See Also: AI Impersonation Is the New Arms Race-Is Your Workforce Ready?<\/p>\n<p>When he asked his employer to put indemnification protections in his contract, they gave him verbal assurances but refused to put anything in writing, which led to a stark realization that he later described it as &#8220;being stuck at the confluence of being accountable for everything and having authority over nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Norton left in April 2025 and now works as a senior technical security adviser for a risk management firm, which represents exactly the kind of talent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfosecurity.com\/blogs\/elephants-in-technology-room-part-2-p-4111\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elephants in the Technology Room https:\/\/www.govinfosecurity.com\/blogs\/elephants-in-technology-room-part-2-p-4111 Publish Date: 2026-05-04 16:14:00 Source Domain: www.govinfosecurity.com Artificial&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ismg-cdn.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/blogs\/elephants-in-technology-room-part-2-image_medium-3-p-4111.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-239058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239060,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239058\/revisions\/239060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}