Collaborate Disseminate
For Selim Aissi, it is important to have a mix of industry, real-world security experience, along with the innate ability to deal with most critical security incidents both at the execution-level as well as within the leadership and board of director ranks, to be an effective cybersecurity leader. As a company executive, the CSO should…
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At Columbia University, the 40,000 or so students who use the university network are responsible for fixing their own computers once they are suspected of being compromised. Their computers are taken off the network right away – and the students are left with little choice but to act on their problem themselves. “I believe in…
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It’s not easy being a woman in a profession mostly dominated by men. But Provation Medical CISO Milinda Rambel Stone says one of the secrets of her success is to radiate confidence about her skills and knowledge. “You have to remind yourself that you are as skilled and as good as any other,” she says. “And…
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Christine Vanderpool was happy to take on a new job as CISO of Florida Crystals six months ago for two reasons. First, she was tired of shoveling snow – “I am not a winter person,” she says. More importantly, she wanted to build a security program from the ground up so that she could develop…
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Chris Wolski’s cybersecurity journey began in the form of a gift from his grandmother – a computer with neither keyboard nor monitor. What the computer had was a number pad. Underneath the numbers were three colors – red, green and blue. Wolski, then in seventh grade, and his brother, hooked the computer to the television…
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Ibrahima Mbaye sets aside time in his busy schedule to have coffee, lunch or dinner with young cybersecurity graduates and college students. Mentoring young graduates and students entering the profession is his way of giving back to an industry that gave him enormous opportunities after he migrated to the United States from his native Senegal. “I…
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After almost 20 years working for IBM in various IT roles and working under bosses of different temperaments, Wes Knight was perfectly happy to run his own training and consultancy firm in Atlanta, Georgia. “In my company, pretty much I was the company, the sole revenue generator,” he says. He worked long hours, travelled more days than…
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In a way, it was music that led Kevin Morrison, the CISO of home construction firm PulteGroup, to a career in information security. “I was always musically inclined,” he says. “My parents were both musicians, while my older brother played trombone, and my younger brother played saxophone. There was always music around the house.” Morrison…
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On his first day as a CISO for financial giant American Express, Jim Routh learned a valuable lesson on the kindness of strangers. He looked at his calendar and saw that he was due to present a security strategy the following day to the Office of the Controller of the Currency. He felt ill-prepared.…
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When he gets some quiet time away from his job as head of cybersecurity for Asia Pacific at banking giant HSBC, David Gee does yoga. “Yoga is a metaphor for life,” he says, “…and for cybersecurity. We all have to develop core strength which includes flexibility and mindfulness.” Raised by a family that frequently threw…
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