Cyber Isn't an IT Problem, It's an Everyone Problem
Show notes
In this episode, I'm joined by Devin Lukomski, President of OTM Cyber, a managed cybersecurity firm protecting 911 call centers and critical public-safety infrastructure. Devin shares his unusual path: an entire career in the military, from infantryman to field artillery officer to cyber and electronic warfare, then out in 2022 into an internship that turned into helping scale OTM from four employees to nearly twenty, with almost a hundred clients across seventeen states. He explains the biggest lesson uniform taught him — that you have to be a good follower first, with humility, before you can lead — and why securing 911 is different from any other cyber work, because seconds of downtime can decide whether someone survives a cardiac arrest. We get into his article on applying military mission-command principles to AI agents, why he runs a "staff" of fifteen agents but never hands them the decision-making, and how he hybridizes human critical thinking with the speed of AI. Devin also breaks down why cyber is an everyone problem (90 percent of breaches trace back to a user error), the rise of deepfake social engineering and indirect prompt injection, and the one magic-wand fix he wants most: quantum-capable cyber tools and the ability to pay his people what they're truly worth.