How Diverse Thinking Can Drive Security Innovation with Trina Ford

The Black Hat Files explores the conversations, ideas and challenges shaping cybersecurity today.

Each episode brings together leaders from across the industry to unpack the decisions, risks and thinking influencing how organisations protect systems, people and information.

In the third episode, host Phillip Wylie sits down with Trina Ford, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer at iHeartMedia.

This episode looks at an idea often overlooked in cybersecurity: the role diverse thinking plays in stronger security outcomes.

• What happens when security teams approach problems from the same perspective?
• How can different experiences and viewpoints strengthen resilience?
• And what role does leadership play in building teams that think differently?

Drawing on her experience leading security across global organisations, Ford explores why innovation in cybersecurity is not only driven by technology but by people, perspective and culture.

From leadership to decision-making, this episode looks at how better questions, broader viewpoints and stronger collaboration can influence how organisations respond to risk.

Because when the threat landscape keeps changing, how you think matters just as much as what you defend.

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