Presented at
Black Hat Europe 2017,
Dec. 7, 2017, 12:55 p.m.
(25 minutes).
It’s estimated that there may be as many as 1.5 million unfilled positions in the global cybersecurity industry over the next few years. How will security departments respond to these staffing shortages? Where can enterprises find new security talent? And how can today’s cybersecurity professionals take advantage of the skills shortage to advance their own careers? In this session, top experts in security team management and hiring will discuss tactics you can use to make better use of your personnel resources – and how you can get the training and skills you need to increase your value to your organization, as well as others that might be hiring.
Presenters:
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Owanate Bestman
- Headhunter - Information Security, Barclay Simpson
Owanate Bestman assists security professional in securing their next career move. With 13 years recruitment experience, Owanate started his career in IT and Operational Risk where he was successful in staffing a number of high profile banking regulatory programmes. He has found individuals and teams that meet specific technical and/ or leadership requirements for some of the world's largest companies, to the mutual benefit of individuals' career progression and the needs of the company. Today, he advises CISO's, Heads of Security and HR on hiring trends, market movements, and of course staffing needs. Working with technical security specialists and non-technical security specialists, Owanate assists seekers throughout the entire security spectrum.
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Tim Wilson
- Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Dark Reading
Tim Wilson is editor-in-chief and co-founder of Dark Reading.com, the IT industry's most widely-read online community for computer security. In this role, Wilson is responsible for managing the site, assigning and editing much of the content, and writing breaking news stories. Wilson also directs the content behind Dark Reading's webcasts, digital issues, and the Dark Reading University program, and is a contributor to UBM's Black Hat and Interop events. Wilson has been recognized three times as one of the top cybersecurity journalists in the U.S. in voting among his peers held by the SANS Institute. In 2011, Wilson was named one of the 50 Most Powerful Voices in Security in research conducted by SYS-CON Media. Prior to joining Dark Reading.com, Wilson was the business editor for Network Computing, one of the industry's leading communities on IT infrastructure and networking. A veteran of the IT industry, Wilson has spent 20 years as a journalist, including eight years as a top editor and reporter for CMP Media's InternetWeek (originally called Communications Week). As executive editor of DataTrends Publications Inc., a newsletter publisher, Wilson founded four industry newsletters on the subject of data communications, edited several others, and wrote a half-dozen books on the topic. Wilson also has served as an industry analyst with two globally-recognized IT consulting firms: Decisys Inc. (now part of Gartner) and Enterprise Management Associates.
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Floris van den Dool
- Managing Director, Accenture Security (Europe & Latin America)
Floris van den Dool is the Managing Director responsible for Accenture’s Information Security business in Europe and Latin America (ELA) and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has more than 25 years of experience in IT and Information Security and assists many Accenture clients with the implementation of security from a business, technology and process point of view.
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