Christy Wyatt is President and CEO of Absolute Security and a seasoned technology executive with more than 25 years of experience leading companies through transformation, innovation, and growth. She has held leadership roles at Motorola, Apple, Citigroup, Good Technology, and Sun Microsystems, and serves on the boards of Ericsson and Silicon Labs. A recognized top CEO, Christy is a trusted advisor on cybersecurity resilience, AI-driven business models, and digital transformation.
Insights from Christy Wyatt
When Prevention Is No Longer Enough.
Christy Wyatt, CEO of Absolute Security, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices recorded at Black Hat USA 2026. She discusses why prevention and detection alone are no longer enough to define security performance, how the business costs of downtime are putting greater focus on cyber resilience, and why organizations are increasingly thinking about their ability to remain operational and recover when disruption occurs.
The Economics of Downtime.
Christy Wyatt, CEO of Absolute Security, joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices. Christy discusses why cybersecurity has evolved from a threat and prevention conversation into a business resilience discipline centered on downtime, continuity, and operational impact. She explains the four questions boards increasingly expect security leaders to answer, and why resilience, including emerging agentic cyber resilience capabilities, is becoming the defining measure of security program effectiveness.
In the Downtime Era, Recovery Is Security.
Christy Wyatt, CEO of Absolute Security joins Dave Bittner on the CyberWire Daily podcast for a sponsored Industry Voices at the RSAC Conference 2026. She explains how cyber risk has shifted into the “Downtime Era,” where business disruption and the ability to recover, not prevent attacks, define impact, urging organizations to prioritize resilience, reduce control drift, and measure security by what remains operational during failure.
Cybersecurity Executive Orders
Tim Starks from CyberScoop discusses executive orders on cybersecurity and the future of CISA.
UN Cybercrime Treaty
Tim Starks, Senior Reporter from CyberScoop, joins us today to discuss a new United Nations cybercrime treaty and his outlook for 2025.
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