How cybersecurity professionals go from invisible to influential.
A book, a framework, and a speaker for the person who is technically right in every meeting — and still not the one people listen to.
Be the cybersecurity voice they trust. Not the one they tolerate.
Talk Human to Me is for the cybersecurity professional who is brilliant at their work but invisible in the room — the one who's spent hours on a presentation that changed absolutely nothing. It's not another breach story or compliance checklist. It's how to stop explaining and start translating, so people actually act on what you tell them.
What you'll walk away with
- How to break the curse of knowledge
- The "last mile" problem — and how to solve it
- Why you're accidentally performing for the wrong audience
- How to steer the ship from the engine room, and get credit for it
- How to get a seat at the table — and a plate
- How to use humor to break down barriers
About Steven
Steven Asifo spent over a decade as a cybersecurity leader at Verizon, Ernst & Young, and Yahoo, where he now directs security GRC for the Paranoids team. He's also a stand-up comedian, keynote speaker, and the only person who will make you laugh about your vulnerability backlog.
His angle isn't a communication workshop bolted onto a technical career — it's a comic's instincts for timing, empathy, and reading the room, applied to the hardest audience in the building: the one that's already stopped listening to security.
Stop explaining. Start translating.AI scales everything except influence.
AI scales alerts, automation, and recommendations. It doesn't scale trust, behavior change, or executive alignment. That gap is what Steven speaks and advises on — for security teams that need to be heard, not just heard from.
- Keynotes & conference talks
- Corporate workshops & training
- Advisory & fractional CISO conversations
- Podcasts & press