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Muckwork is the invisible drag on every company. It’s the repetitive, manual, low-leverage work we tolerate because we assume it’s necessary. Copying data between systems. Triaging alerts. Clicking through approvals. Tasks that keep things running but slow everything down. In 2006, Jeff Bezos called the backend plumbing of web apps “muck.” AWS was created to eliminate it. Today, the same kind of work is everywhere in the enterprise. We call it muckwork.

In this week’s episode of The Future of Security Operations podcast, I'm joined by Mark Hillick, CISO at Brex. Mark’s experience in the security industry spans more than two decades. He started out as a security engineer at Allied Irish Banks before advancing through companies like MongoDB to become Director and Head of Security at Riot Games. His book, The Security Path, features over 70 interviews with security professionals on their career journeys. Mark and I discuss.