# The Human Side of Cybersecurity: Lessons From Yahoo's Director of Security GRC

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Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.toptal.com/executive-guidance/podcasts/the-human-side-of-cybersecurity>)

Author: ZOHRA IBRAHIMI, INFORMATION SECURITY PRACTICE LEAD @ TOPTAL

Published: 2025-01-12T23:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Toptal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/toptal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>), [Security & Privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security-privacy.md>), [Business Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/business-security.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

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## AI overview

This Executive Guidance podcast episode examines the human side of cybersecurity leadership. Steven Asifo of Yahoo and Zohra Ibrahimi of Toptal discuss how clarity, communication, culture, governance, risk management, and compliance can help security leaders support business goals while reducing cyber risk, including in regulated and AI-enabled environments.

## Source excerpt

As organizations face growing cyber risk and regulatory pressure, security leaders are being asked to do more than protect systems: They must enable the business. In this episode of the Executive Guidance podcast, Steven Asifo, Director of Security GRC at Yahoo, joins Zohra Ibrahimi, Toptal's Information Security Practice Lead, to discuss how clarity, communication, and culture are redefining modern security leadership.