Salesforce Security Office Hours with Guest Speaker, Paul McCollum

Recently, Farmers Insurance disclosed a data breach impacting 1.1 million customers, joining Google, Cisco, Workday, and dozens of organizations hit by preventable attacks. While companies debate budget allocations, attackers have industrialized voice phishing campaigns destroying shareholder value. The cost of data breaches continue to rise and yet many C-suite leaders continue postponing platform-specific security investments.

This week we will be diving deeper into why executives treat existential security risks like optional budget items and exploring the dangerous organizational dysfunction that creates perfect conditions for attackers. We’ll examine how C-suite leaders lack awareness about platform-specific risks, rely on generic compliance reviews that miss critical gaps, and maintain communication breakdowns with technical teams about actual risk exposure. We will explore what immediate actions leadership must take to stop gambling with their company’s future and how to translate technical vulnerabilities into business language that drives executive action before your organization becomes another preventable casualty.