🐐 The CISO is Just a Scapegoat: How Executives Sacrifice Security Leaders to Hide Their Own Failures

By DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”


The boardroom doesn’t care about security.
They care about optics. About quarterly reports. About bonuses.

And when the inevitable breach happens?
They don’t take responsibility. They find a scapegoat.

Enter the CISO.

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Cybersecurity is NOT a Democracy: Why Weak Links Should Be Fired, Not Trained

By DeadSwitch | The Cyber Ghost
“In silence, we rise. In the switch, we fade.”


Let’s get this straight: Cybersecurity is NOT a charity.

Yet, every day, companies refuse to cut dead weight, leaving security teams dragging corpses through the battlefield.

🔹 The “veteran” who hasn’t updated their skills in a decade.
🔹 The clueless sysadmin who still writes passwords on sticky notes.
🔹 The manager who ignores every warning, then blames the SOC when an attack succeeds.

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