The Security Practitioner: An Uncertain Future
About the Speaker
Founder at Security Weekly Labs
Adrian is the founder of Security Weekly Labs at CyberRisk Alliance. He focuses primarily on cybersecurity product reviews, but will also provide industry insight trends for both SC Media and Security Weekly (both CyberRisk Alliance companies). He brings two decades of industry experience, working as a practitioner, penetration tester and industry analyst. He has spent the last few years as an entrepreneur and challenging (mostly terrible) norms in sales and marketing for a variety of vendors. Adrian loves to cook, eat, hike, play music and regale his teenagers with stories of what the early days of the Internet were like.
Presentation Resources
In the early days, folks weren't too sure about this new security department that started popping up. Most "hacks" were defacements of websites done by activists and kids - nothing too worrisome. Then, in the mid-2000s the first major breaches started getting reported. Thrilled that the mainstream was starting to take security more seriously, the security community started to take itself a bit too seriously. Security became the department of "no". In many organizations, security folks became patronizing and adversarial. It wasn't a great look and we're still trying to fix our public image. Fast forward to today and security has been relatively humbled. Breaches happen every day, but they rarely cause lasting damage and almost never kill businesses. DevOps, agile, cloud, and the ever-growing VC/startup culture have transformed technology. This transformation has led to a hard split in the security community that's starting to look a bit like the split between sysadmins when Linux came on the scene in the 90's. How does this "new" security practitioner differ from the "old"? This talk will explore the differences between them, including analysis of actual job postings, and some fun anecdotes.