The Human Cost of Defense: A CISO's View From the War Room
Security Boulevard, Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
In cybersecurity, success is invisible. When nothing breaks, no headlines flash across screens, and no angry calls come from the boardroom, it means someone did their job. But that silence comes with a cost.
Phil Keibler, a CISO from a major retail chain featured in Midnight in the War Room, knows that cost well. 'On any given week, we stop 120 real attacks before they become catastrophic,' he told me. 'If we weren't doing our job, we wouldn't last a day.'