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Recommended by Steve Tout

No BS insights, guidance, and best practices from experienced CISOs for CISOs to help organizations improve their cybersecurity posture and business outcomes.

The Strategy Layer recommends The Candid CISO for its unfiltered, insightful conversations that go beyond tech talk—offering real-world lessons, leadership strategies, and candid perspectives every cybersecurity leader needs now more than ever.

- Steve Tout

The Razor’s Edge

By Steve Tout

Strategic insights from the edge of cybersecurity, leadership, and trust in the age of AI.

If you enjoy the structured insights and strategic frameworks we share here on The Strategy Layer, you might also appreciate The Razor’s Edge—a more personal journal from our founder, Steve Tout. It’s raw, reflective, and unfiltered—a behind-the-scenes look at what it really takes to build Identient, lead through uncertainty, and stay sharp in a system built to break. Less polished, more personal—but just as committed to clarity, trust, and transformation.

- Steve Tout

Lexi Reese

Lexi Reese writes about power—how it's accumulated, how it's used, and how it affects ordinary people—and what makes her perspective unique is that she's seen it as a tech executive, U.S. Senate candidate, and now as an AI company co-founder and CEO.

Lexi is a bold courageous voice in the heart of Silicon Valley, pioneering AI governance.

- Steve Tout