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