Hello, Rick here. Welcome to season two of CSO perspectives. We took a couple of weeks off at the end of season one to build some new elements into the show.

In addition to the individual podcast that we did last season, or as my executive editor Peter

Kilby likes to call them Rick's brain dump episodes.

In this season, we are also introducing you to the CyberWire's hash table of experts.

I have browbeat some of my friends and other key leaders in the network defender space

to have a seat with me at the CyberWire hash table to discuss important topics to the network defender community.

So one episode will be me talking about what I think regarding a particular topic, and the very

next episode will be me talking with one or more experts from the hash table about it.

So strap in. I think it's going to be fun. My name is Rick Howard. You are listening to CSO perspectives, my podcast about the

ideas, strategies, and technologies that senior security executives wrestle with on a

daily basis. In season two we are going to

continue our discussion about cybersecurity first principal thinking by adding

more bricks to our metaphorical Infosec Wall. In this episode we are talking about security operations

centers. The idea of operations centers has been around seemingly forever.

Friedrich Klem, in his history of Western technology, suggests that the concept goes back as far as 5,000 BC.

Amazing.

Any time an organization grows big enough,

either in terms of people or function,

where one small team can't do everything,

leaders have built these centers to manage the workflow and status of the various groups

and to coordinate actions among them. If you fast forward to the early days of the technological revolution,

we started seeing organizations that began looking like a modern day

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