Australian IT Skills Shortage: 2024 Is The Year To Self-Upskill

Australian IT Skills Shortage: 2024 Is The Year To Self-Upskill

A recent series of reports and data point to one consistent theme: The skills crisis in the Australian IT industry is deepening and the nation-wide solutions seem unrealistic, but for IT professionals who are motivated to develop their skillsets, the opportunity is massive. The skills crisis in Australia starts at school A recently-released report by the Australian government titled The Australian Universities Accord contains 47 recommendations to help Australia tackle the challenges that it faces…

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Learning to say no in your security career

Learning to say no in your security career

Security has the reputation of being the “Department of ‘No.’” No, that risk is too great. No, we can’t take the chance. No, the likelihood of failure is too high. Most of us in the profession believe that the role of the security executive is not to say “no,” but to lay out the risks, costs, relevant factors and let the business or asset owner make an informed decision whether to go forward. On a…

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Align your security career for future success

Align your security career for future success

Security professionals who look to advance their careers will often present their past successes as an indicator of achievement of equivalent results with a new organization. The measurement of knowledge together with how one shows characteristics and competencies does have merit. However, it also assumes that the problems and risks faced previously will be the same in the future. Historical knowledge and analysis are definite benefits if they are adaptable. The underlying factors that influence…

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Security executive interview preparation: New Year strategy

Security executive interview preparation: New Year strategy

A thorough understanding of interview processes is critical to being chosen as the successful candidate. Senior security risk management roles are increasingly critical hires for an organization and the market is still extremely competitive this year. Companies are even more focused on making the right hires. From the hiring company’s perspective, each part of the interview process is designed to examine you as a candidate and learn if the organization will benefit from hiring you,…

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The state of the chief information security officer role

The state of the chief information security officer role

The growing importance of cybersecurity has led to an expansion in security leadership roles. According to an IANS report, most fortune firm chief information security officers (CISOs) are VP-level or higher. The report found that 74% of CISOs and global CISOs report to a CIO or CTO. The other 26% report to a business function such as a COO, CFO, chief risk officer or legal counsel. According to the report, four in 10 CISOs spend…

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Cybersecurity career training for the real world

Cybersecurity career training for the real world

Riccardo Nobili’s passion for cybersecurity career training is palpable. Not only is Nobili the Head of Network at Leroy Merlin, a global home improvement and gardening retailer, but he is also a Cisco Networking Academy instructor where he enables students to become future cybersecurity defenders. If you’re also passionate about cybersecurity, check out our open opportunities. Scalable: Networks and student growth As the Head of Network at Leroy Merlin, Nobili is accountable for all parts…

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Should you write a security book?

Should you write a security book?

In this era of self-publishing, ebooks, gig ghostwriters and publishing on demand, it seems there are maybe 12 people in the security profession who haven’t written a book. Actually, the vast majority of us haven’t. Are we missing an opportunity? Authorship connotes power, authority, confidence, discipline, credibility and mastery — all elements of leadership. Is it time for you to publish a book? There are many factors to consider. You will not make much money,…

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The power of community: Elevating Latinas in cybersecurity

The power of community: Elevating Latinas in cybersecurity

When Samantha Bolet, Angela Hill and Vanessa Morales founded the security nonprofit Latinas in Cyber (LAIC), they sought to create a community in the cybersecurity field during a turbulent time in the profession and wider world. “LAIC was a pandemic baby,” says Bolet, Vice President and Founder of LAIC and Senior Privacy Program Manager at ByteDance, the parent company for TikTok. “It came out of this moment where we were really trying to connect and…

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Security executive interview preparation: End of year planning

Security executive interview preparation: End of year planning

December often finds security professionals planning for a career change in the following year. Lack of preparation is the primary reason well-qualified candidates fail in an interview. This means security leaders should plan their job search strategies now, not next year. One way to kick that preparation off is to understand how companies approach security executive interviews. Organizations continually develop and improve upon carefully constructed candidate assessment processes designed to aid them in selection of…

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Phil’s Food for Thought – Career Development

Phil’s Food for Thought – Career Development

I’ve never had the intention to join the technology industry, in fact, I had never even heard of Cisco up until a couple of months before I joined the company, and now it’s been 27 years since I first started! In the multiple career development sessions that I have been a part of at Cisco, there were some recurrent questions and themes addressed, this is how I would summarize them. Waiter, chef, commercial gym owner,…

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