Security Is Just Business Risk

You've Been Heard

Philip Howard

Tech News, Technology, Business, Management, News

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🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Edward Marchewka, CIO at Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, joins You've Been Heard for a practical conversation about board communication, cybersecurity leadership, and the gap between technical expertise and business trust. He explains the information asymmetry gap, why fear-based security messaging often backfires, and how IT leaders can connect risk to confidentiality, finance, people, reputation, availability, and data integrity. The episode also covers adult learning, remediation ownership, third-party validation, operationalized security, incident response discipline, and the career lesson Edward gives every emerging IT leader: do not sit behind your desk.

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0:00.0	All right, everyone, welcome back to you've been heard today.
0:13.2	Edward Marchuka on the show, CIO, Illinois Bone and Joint Institute.
0:20.3	You've written a book I've heard, or maybe more than one.
0:22.6	Why don't we just start off with that?
0:24.6	What's the-
0:25.6	Yeah, so, yeah, so I wrote a book,
0:28.6	a cybersecurity leader's journey, speaking the language of the board.
0:31.6	I-
0:32.6	Which is awesome.
0:33.6	Speaking the language of business IT, so I'm sure there's maybe some parallels, but I'm sure there are.
0:39.7	So I did my dissertation, and so I took the principles and ideas from it and turned it into a narrative story so that it was actually digestible.
0:49.3	And the feedback's been great.
0:51.2	On other books, I've contributed to a couple others, the famed CISO Compass by Todd
0:56.0	Fitzgerald. I contributed a piece to that. And then I co-wrote chapters for NGOs in both the third
1:04.7	and fourth edition of the ABA's Cybersecurity Handbook. So when it comes to speaking to the board about security, and I've had a brilliant
1:16.1	CTO on the show before, and had worked towards, oh, what do we want to say?
1:24.4	It was working towards zero trust for a year and a half, had everyone's buy-in.
1:29.8	Everyone knew how important it was.
1:31.2	And then when it came to the announcement of like, guys, great news.
1:36.6	We became Zero Trust certified today at the boardroom meeting, whatever it was.
1:42.1	And to her, the level of accomplishment, happiness, you would feel when you finally
1:48.2	accomplish this goal was high.
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