CISO Series Podcast Our Security Team's Love Language is Buying New Tools
Mar 3, 2026
Tim Leehealey, VP of Corporate Strategy and Operations at Strike48, is a security leader focused on agentic log intelligence. He talks about defensible forensics, when tools and culture should bend to business needs, the limits of SIEM and AI hype, and a new agent-based approach to logs and SOC operations.
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Forensics Requires Defensibility Over Perfection
- Forensic perfection is less about absolute truth and more about defensibility in court.
- Andy Ellis: testify only to what you can prove and label uncertainties to avoid indefensible claims.
Opposing Counsel Targets Procedures Not Just Evidence
- Tim Leehealey recounts that opposing counsel often attacks procedures and documentation rather than the technical parsing.
- At AccessData he trained practitioners to harden procedures because lawyers target process gaps, not just memory parsing.
Design Controls Around Expected Business Exceptions
- Make security an enabler of business by designing controls that accept expected exceptions.
- Tim Leehealey: pre-think exceptions for fast startups instead of letting them leak and weaken your posture.