Stu Hirst was already a CISO when he started to go deaf. It was 2023, and the hearing loss crept in over months, enough for him to adapt, to lean on hearing aids and captions, to quietly reorganize his calendar around the cognitive load of processing sound. It was manageable. Then, in July 2025, it wasn’t. “Without my very powerful hearing aids, I cannot hear speech at all,” Hirst says. “I might hear very loud, … More → The post Decoding silence: How deaf and hard-of-hearing pros are breaking into cybersecurity appeared first on Help Net Security .