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Steve Tout
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Founder & CEO @ Identient, entrepreneur, strategist, podcast producer and host, ultra runner, and vinyl aficionado located in the PNW. Posts about #cybersecurity, #Leadership, #ITStrategy, #ITGovernance, #CISO
Love the natural lighting. I have your cats cousin over here.
September 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
95% of AI pilots fail.
That doesn’t scare me.

95% of lessons forgotten does.

The real risk isn’t failure—it’s amnesia by design.
Do we have the governance to remember before safety + cybersecurity slip away again?

#AI #Cybersecurity #Governance #CISO #Leadership
September 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The CISO never entered the room. Neither did security.

Multi-million CIAM MVP shipped with no review, no detection, no alignment.
Just convenience stacked on risk.

Don’t let IAM slip to priority 6 or 7—
once it does, it runs away fast.

#Cybersecurity #CISO #IAM
August 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Tech matters. But if the board can’t understand it, they won’t fund it.

Law 3: Speak business, not tech.
If you're not talking ROI, EBITDA, or strategy, you're not in the conversation.

I go deeper in The CISO On The Razor’s Edge. Launching June 2. 📘

#CISO #BoardroomReady #RazorsEdgeQuestions
May 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Dashboards aren’t strategy. Compliance isn’t leadership.

If you’re still trying to lead with metrics instead of meaning, this one's for you #CISOs

Book drops June 2. Live Q&A details here → www.linkedin.com/events/73310...

CC: @accidentalciso.net @stamos.org
May 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Tools don’t fix misalignment. Budgets don’t solve unclear priorities. Compliance doesn’t equal resilience.

Leaders who can step back and see the system—not just the incidents—will build the future of security.

www.strategylayer.com/p/the-real-p...
May 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Everyone loves to talk about visibility.
But if no one owns what you're seeing, it doesn't matter.

You don't need another dashboard.
You need control.
You need to know who's accountable.
You need to know if it’s actually working.

Visibility's not the goal.
It never was.
April 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
750 hours back.
Not a feature.
A f***ing shift.

You weren’t hired to build PowerPoints, manage dashboards, or explain risk for the 47th time this month.

But here you are.
Again.

Strategic Performance Intelligence wasn’t built for control.
It was built to buy back your time — and your sanity.
April 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Reflecting on my chat with Chirag Shah on the Candid CISO podcast is a reminder that effective IAM and security leadership isn't focusing solely on technology, but about alignment between org priorities and security initiatives.

#CandidCISO #SentientIAM #Cybersecurity #BusinessStrategy #Leadership
December 13, 2024 at 1:17 AM
🚨 Tomorrow at 9:00 AM PT! 🚨 Join us for Candid CISO Open Office Hours! 🌟 We'll recap Season 1 highlights, discuss cybersecurity trends, and share a sneak peek at Season 2. Join the conversation—bring your questions! 💻 #CyberLeadership #CandidCISO #OfficeHours #CISO

www.linkedin.com/events/candi...
December 2, 2024 at 4:41 PM