El Diario del CISO El Diario del CISO (The CISO Journal) Edición 22 | Page 4

Influencers wondered why this industry had never crossed my mind before. I applied, got the job, and that’s how the adventure began.. Kelly Shortridge “In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.” The complete article is here Gary Hayslip CISO at Webroot, Inc.. The Red Pill of Resilience in InfoSec Writing a Cybersecurity Resume There has been insufficient exploration of the first principles of resilience in the context of information security, despite the term being superficially peppered in our common discourse. Too often, resilience is conflated with robustness — to the detriment of us all. To state more poetically, through the pen of the notable fantasy author Robert Jordan referencing one of Aesop’s fables, “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” To speak of protection without resilience is to believe you can always beat the wind. To speak of deterrence without resilience is to believe you can deter the wind from blowing at all. The complete article is here Security Response Symantec Security Response brings you the latest threat intelligence from the IT security world Working in Cyber Security: “You need to be open-minded and willing to learn” Through pure coincidence. After having worked in the digital TV and payments industry as a presales engineer, I was looking for something new. My flatmate at the time was working in Symantec. He was quite passionate about the industry and mentioned that his presales team was hiring. I read about the role and it seemed cool. I did my bit of investigation about information security and I kind of I remember in 2007 when I was retiring from the military that at times I felt lost and seriously worried about my family and what would happen to us. For most veterans, it is a stressful time as we step away from a life of service into private industry. For me, I had spent the previous two decades of my life serving my country and in effect protecting private industry, but I had no idea on how to work in it. As my time on active duty came to a close, I attended the one- week transition class that was supposed to tell me everything I needed to know about becoming a civilian. I can’t explain to you how every night when I came home to my wife and two young children during that week I was terrified. I felt I had skillsets and experience that should get my family and I a well-paying job, but one of the hardest tasks to learn was how to communicate that in a resume. The complete article is here