338- When Security and IT collide: The startup challenge with Paul Knight

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Paul Knight Currently serving as VP of Information Technology and CISO at Turntide Technologies, Paul Knight brings 25 years of experience across various IT disciplines. His unique background includes roles in defense, aerospace, and automotive manufacturing, bringing both operational and security expertise to startup environments. When Security and IT collide: The startup challenge How do you effectively manage both IT operations and security oversight in a startup environment? Paul Knight shares his experience as VP of IT and CISO at Turntide Technologies, discussing the challenges of wearing multiple hats, building effective teams, and maintaining proper governance while supporting rapid growth...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to today's episode of dissecting popular IT nerds.
0:08.1	I'm your host, Doug Kameen, and today I'm talking with Paul Knight, the VP of Information
0:12.2	Technology and CSO at Turntide Technologies.
0:15.3	Welcome to the show, Paul.
0:16.4	That good.
0:17.4	Thanks, Douglas.
0:18.4	Thanks.
0:19.4	So, Paul, before we got on the recorded part of our interview here, we were talking a little bit about your role at Turntide Technologies.
0:25.8	And it's a little unusual for you for a role to be both the VP of Information Technologies and a CISO at the same time.
0:34.0	Yeah, well, welcome to startup.
0:36.6	You know, having worked for both very large companies and also some startups, you know,
0:42.3	you're just expected to kind of get stuck in with a lot of roles.
0:45.6	So, yeah, it's not a particularly mainstream that the head of IT and the head of security,
0:52.5	you know, kind of poacher turned gamekeeper, as it were.
0:57.4	So it's – but I think in a smaller company where security is absolutely paramount,
1:04.2	running both roles can work with the right governance and structure in place.
1:09.7	So tell us a little bit about that. I mean, there's a natural tension there because, you know, the CSO roles, a job at, in a generalized sense, is oversight versus the IT leader's role is implementation and, you know, operations work.
1:27.6	And you got to, you know, there's going to be sub work to keep those two separated.
1:31.4	I'm sure you've got some, you know, level of consultants of people who you could trust to work on both sides of it.
1:35.9	But tell us how you make sure to keep those two roles in, you know, separated in a startup environment.
1:42.7	Yeah, I think, I think, you know, my career has been pretty varied.
1:45.0	I've been lucky enough to work holistically across many different disciplines within IT over the, you know, the last 25 years.
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