John Woods is a Security Engineer at Novacoast specializing in penetration testing, security architecture and organization reviews, and security training for clients. John is an IT and security veteran with over 17 years of IT experience and over a decade primarily focused on Information Security. As a consultant John has seen numerous Information Security organizations of all types and became passionate about IT leadership in the Information Security area. Armed with this knowledge and passion John decided to leave consulting and try his hand at leading an Information Security team which he did successfully for 5 years. Now able to look back detached from the role and with the value of hindsight John is excited to share what he learned to further help leaders in Information Security and help the community as a whole.