{"id":264153,"date":"2026-06-04T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/has-cybersecurity-become-a-cult\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T13:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T17:10:12","slug":"has-cybersecurity-become-a-cult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/has-cybersecurity-become-a-cult\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Cybersecurity Become a Cult?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/has-cybersecurity-become-cult-cisoseries-btzac\">Has Cybersecurity Become a Cult?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/has-cybersecurity-become-cult-cisoseries-btzac\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/has-cybersecurity-become-cult-cisoseries-btzac<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 13:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.linkedin.com\">www.linkedin.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n          <span class=\"\">We think of cybersecurity as a discipline. But when do ideas like best practices and NIST frameworks change into a system of belief?<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n          <span class=\"\">Check out <\/span><span class=\"\">this post<\/span><span class=\"\"> for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week\u2019s episode co-hosted by <\/span><span class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>        David Spark<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span class=\"\">, the producer of CISO Series, and Davi Ottenheimer, principal, <\/span><span class=\"\">Flying Penguin<\/span><span class=\"\">. Joining is <\/span><span class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>        Joshua Copeland<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span class=\"\"> , director of security, Crescendo. Huge thanks to our sponsor, <\/span><span class=\"\"><br \/>\n      ThreatLocker<br \/>\n  <\/span><span class=\"\">.<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n      <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"publishing-embed-block-iframe max-w-full \" height=\"405\" width=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/embeds\/publishingEmbed.html?articleId=8636986545250497318\" title=\"What Does the Next Generation of Cloud Security Look Like?\"><br \/>\n      <\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<p><h3><span class=\"\">Tools, not religion<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n          <span class=\"\">Frameworks aren&#8217;t sacred, but they aren&#8217;t the problem either. <\/span><span class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>        Dr. Brian McElyea<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span class=\"\"> drew a clear line, saying, &#8220;Frameworks aren&#8217;t dogma, they&#8217;re guardrails. They give us common language across complex environments.&#8221; The goal is less dogma and more proof, with CISOs shifting toward continuous validation and resilience metrics rather than checklist compliance. Asrar Ismail of <\/span><span class=\"\"><br \/>\n      Quality Management Australia (QMAus)<br \/>\n  <\/span><span class=\"\"> pushed back on the cult framing from a different angle. NIST and ISO aren&#8217;t frozen doctrine. NIST SP 800-53 has had six major revisions, and ISO 27001 is reviewed every five years. &#8220;That&#8217;s not a cult,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That&#8217;s continuous improvement.&#8221;<\/span>\n        <\/p>\n<p><h3><span class=\"\">The case for structured discipline<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n          <span class=\"\">Frameworks are starting points and the &#8220;rituals&#8221; that accompany them carry real value when used correctly. <\/span><span class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>        Brian Bronstein<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><span class=\"\"> of <\/span><span class=\"\"><br \/>\n      Appalachia Technologies, LLC<br \/>\n  <\/span><span class=\"\"> made the case for phishing tests and tabletop exercises as preparedness tools. &#8220;Think about fire drills,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They&#8217;re run endlessly, and are never perfectly executed, but the muscle memory&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/has-cybersecurity-become-cult-cisoseries-btzac\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has Cybersecurity Become a Cult? https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/has-cybersecurity-become-cult-cisoseries-btzac Publish Date: 2026-06-04 13:00:00 Source Domain: www.linkedin.com We think&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.licdn.com\/dms\/image\/v2\/D5612AQGYID13kvYgaw\/article-cover_image-shrink_720_1280\/B56Z5vuC4qIoAQ-\/0\/1779990803172?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=9y8of1U710J3Uj5-vqbJw-57YIirDpY9eG4m6hT86F8","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[25,57],"class_list":["post-264153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-phishing","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264153"}],"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=264153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264157,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264153\/revisions\/264157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}