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Every week, Nightfall publishes news and insights from the world of cloud security to help you stay up-to-date on cybersecurity issues and to be more proactive in managing your threat responses.

Catch up on CISO Insider with our Season 1 recap episode, featuring the best quotes and highlights from our first five episodes in season 1. We gathered insights, lessons, and other valuable soundbytes from infosec leaders at Sisense, Compass, LifeOmic and Caterpillar Financial.

Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation Chief Information Security Officer Ross Young joins CISO Insider to share his insights from a career in both the public and private sectors, like how to develop shared goals and alignment within a security organization, why soft skills and people skills are essential for building relationships, and how introspection can make great managers.

In January, we hosted two more infosec leaders on the CISO Insider podcast: Compass CISO J.J. Agha and LifeOmic Chief Legal Officer Lisa Hawke. On the Nightfall blog, we research key topics for infosec leaders right now: how data loss prevention impacts the bottom line of every business, why you need to protect data in Confluence, and the differences between network, endpoint, and cloud DLP.

Everlaw VP of Security and Compliance Lisa Hawke joins CISO Insider to share her insights on the hidden skills necessary to succeed as an infosec leader and her journey from working in environmental law to security and compliance. Also, get some birding recommendations in Central Park.

Read the latest from Nightfall: the launch of our CISO Insider podcast, blog posts on key security vulnerabilities within Google Drive and what we can learn from the biggest GitHub security incidents of 2020, and more.

Compass Chief Information Security Officer J.J. Agha joins CISO Insider to share some of the most important learnings from his career as a security leader: the many practical applications of the OODA loop in infosec, how COVID is forcing us all to become better communicators, and why creative problem solving can help us face the neverending challenges of ambiguity while working in tech.

Sisense Chief Security & Trust Officer Ty Sbano returns for the second part of his interview with us on finding community within the infosec industry, plus some must-listen security podcasts, and things for early career professionals to look out for as COVID-19 extends into 2021.