“Can Defense Keep Up?” Is the Wrong Question

In this episode of The Watchtower, Ash Hunt sits down with Jimmy Harrington, retired Air Force colonel and former Deputy CIO at U.S. Special Operations Command, for a conversation about cyber resilience, defense innovation, and what large organizations often misunderstand about speed.From NATO and the Pentagon to AI-enabled defense systems and private-sector collaboration, Jimmy shares what defense can teach enterprise security leaders about resilience, leadership, mentorship, and building organizations that can operate through uncertainty.Highlights

• Why “keeping up” may be the wrong question
• How zero trust changes the goal from prevention to resilience
• Why defense innovation can become “innovation theater”
• What it takes for new technology to actually scale
• What CISOs can learn from military leadership and mentorship