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Watch this 40-minute interview featuring Lindsay Kaye, VP of Threat Intelligence at HUMAN Security, as she shares her unconventional journey from software engineer to cybersecurity leader and reveals why empathy became the cornerstone of her leadership philosophy. Discover how Kaye accidentally found her calling in reverse engineering after realizing she excelled more at taking code apart than writing it, and learn why she maintains hands-on technical work while leading a globally distributed team across six time zones. Explore her strategic approach to building trust through transparency, including why admitting "I don't know" demonstrates leadership strength rather than weakness, and understand her framework for managing remote security teams without defaulting to hub-and-spoke communication patterns. Gain insights into her mentoring philosophy for developing junior analysts' reverse engineering skills, her approach to balancing technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, and practical strategies like timeboxing for productivity and the "trust bucket" concept for team management. Learn about her career-defining MBA experience, the mentor who took a chance on her, and how she pays it forward through teaching, plus get her recommendations for essential books and training resources for aspiring reverse engineers. The interview covers her work on major threat investigations including Bad Box 2.0 that disrupted over one million devices, her hiring philosophy that prioritizes communication skills over credentials, and her vision for the future of managing remote cybersecurity teams.
