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This was the breakfast keynote for the ISSA Women in Security SIG held at the Disney Contemporary in October, 2014. The session looks at the info security issues from what can be expected in the near and mid-term future, the challenges of management and leadership talent in this area, and how women can uniquely fill the leadership gap.
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- 1. Women & the Future of Security Leadership ISSA Women in Security SIG Breakfast Key Speaker: Deborah Gonzalez, Esq. October 23, 2014
- 3. Setting the Context • Early Morning • Ten (10) Questions • Many answers • Answer Along: No right or wrong answers • All relate to each other 3
- 4. Setting the Context “The future isn’t what we thought it would be. We don’t walk around in silver suits, travel to colonies on Mars or drive in flying cars. Instead, we dress casual, take selfies and communicate in 140 characters.” ~ Greg Satell 4
- 5. Setting the Context “Always in motion is the future.” ~ YODA Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 5
- 6. What are the Current Challenges of IS? • Mobile: BYOD/BYON/BYOA/BYOW • Hacker Sophistication • Social Media/Online Activity • Cloud/Data Storage • User Denial/Resistance • Privacy Standards (US & Global) • Legislation/Regulation • Business Operations - $$/Reputation 6
- 7. Four Possible Futures for IS 7 Increased: • Options • Business Opps • Spending • Quasi-Privacy Transform: • High Tech • Integrated • Shared • Access • Privacy Collapse: • Decline • Hackers Rule the World • No Security • No Privacy Constraint: • Heavy Regulation • Undue Burdens • No Privacy
- 8. What are the Future Challenges of IS? • Authentication: Beyond Biometrics • Pervasive Technology: Everywhere and Invisible; Wearable, sensors, bicentennial man; The Circle: always being recorded; “Privacy is theft,” etc. • Internet of Things • No Boundaries for Data: Drones, Private vs. Professional • Generational: Beyond the Millennial Generation • Insurance Maturity • Business Operations: Beyond $$ 8
- 9. What are IS Management Challenges? • Get the right job done at the right place at the right time. – Assign the right people to do it – Allocation of Resources: Structures/Systems – Training/Update Systems/Update Training • Shadow IT • Enforcing Policy • Security Implementation • Recruiting/Retaining – On the ground level 9
- 10. What are IS Leadership Challenges? • Recruiting/Retaining – Talent vs Knowledge Management • Succession Planning • Becoming a talent scout • Developing Policy • Developing Security Strategy – Incorporating Security Strategy into Business Strategy • Budgeting 10
- 11. What is Required for IS Leaders? • Change management skills • Ability to influence • Build coalition • Critical thinking • Problem solving • Managerial ability • Emotional intelligence 11 • Creativity & innovation • Strategy execution • Strategy development • Ability for financial analysis • Have initiative
- 12. What is Required for IS Leaders? • Fitting in with the organizational culture • Cultural sensitivity and fitting have to be married with the political and business savvy • Linking security work to strategic objectives of the company – need to learn to talk money • Right Communication skills – comfortable with speaking with the top • Intelligence Community Skills: intelligence collection & analysis 12
- 13. What’s Desired in an IS Leader? • Accessibility • Global and cultural acumen • Transparency • Authenticity • Strategic Flexibility 13 • Interpersonal Agility • Risk Leverage • Rapid Decision Making • Technological Savvy
- 14. How Can Women Fill the Gap? “Security is becoming less about technology and more about people – understanding their behavior, and protecting users as they do their work. The study shows that women tend to value skills such as communication and education – the skills that are currently in short supply.” ~ Michael Kassner, 2013 14
- 15. How Do I Become that Ideal IS Leader? • Commitment – accept the reality of what you are about to embark on • Preparation – create your vision & your plan; learn • Alliances – beyond networking; establish your own advisory board; be concerned of others • Take calculated risks – initiate 15
- 16. How Do I Become that Ideal IS Leader? • Communicate – your ideas and tout your successes; the successes of other women; different mediums • Maintain excellence & your integrity • Persevere • Give Back – This generation – Next generation – Seven generations Forward 16
- 17. How Do I Create Other IS Leaders? • Create Awareness of the Issues – The problem: Blog, Write, Speak, Comment, etc. – Successful Solutions: All of the above + Celebrate • Resources – Create – Make Available – Distribute Information About 17
- 18. How Do I Create Other IS Leaders? • Get Involved – Company Diversity Plan/Program – Company Leadership Plan/Program – Company/Community Mentor Programs – Company/Community Internship Programs – Company/Community STEM Programs – Professional IS Associations (and not just SIGs) 18
- 19. Developing Women IS Leaders: Cases • Hewlett Packard (HP) announced that it would finance a scholarship program, Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security (SWSIS), up to $250,000 (2014) • Super Bowl 2014, GoldieBlox, a tech start-up that creates engineering toys for girls • Lego Releases Female Scientists Set (2014) • Magazine Articles/Profiles – InforSec Magazine (August 2014) – SC Magazine (July-Aug 2014) 19
- 20. Why is this important? “Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.” ~ Rosabeth Moss Kanter 20
- 21. Why is this important? "Future is not a noun, it's a verb.” ~Bruce Sterling 21
- 22. Conclusion Remember: It’s not just about the answers you put on paper today; it’s the actions you take as next steps that make the difference. 22
- 23. Q&A 23
- 24. Thank you and Contact Information Deborah Gonzalez, Esq. Law2sm, LLC www.law2sm.com @Law2sm deborah@law2sm.com Managing Online Risk: Apps, Mobile, & Social Media Security www.managingonlinerisk.com @DGOnlineSec 24
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- Early Morning Coffee, Wisdom, Inspiration, Call to Action Ten (10) Questions To pique our interest, our curiosity, our minds Many answers I present mine, but there are MANY others No right or wrong answers Unless your company/life/career depend on it All relate to each other Security challenges, esp. online, have proven we are in this together.
- Hacker Sophistication: Generation of Cybercriminal First Generation – to prove I can do it Second generation – show me the money Third generation – cybercrime goes big time with collaboration and teamwork Fourth generation – malware markets; malware distribution services; websites to buy, sell and manage portfolios of stolen data Fifth generation – today: social engineering; targeted hacks Physical Theft – laptop, smart phone, tablet, etc. International Travel Identity Theft Business operations: Investments in security products/risk assessments/security strategic plans; ROI; threat intelligence; business continuity
- “The commercial drone industry is growing at a rate that greatly exceeds the FAA’s current pace of regulation or enforcement capability.” John Goglia from Forbes as quoted in: Kashmir Hill, “Drone Wars (Of the Legal Variety),” Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/03/17/drone-wars-of-the-legal-kind/, Mar 17, 2014. Data/Privacy: “If you aren’t paying for the product, you are the product.” Julia Angwin, “Has Privacy Become a Luxury Good?” The New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/04/opinion/has-privacy-become-a-luxury-good.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140304, Mar 3, 2014.
- Michael Kassner, “Gender gap: Why information security needs more women,” TechRepublic, http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/gender-gap-why-information-security-needs-more-women/, Nov 4, 2013.
- Get Involved – We hear “be at the table” – what table? And what are you doing when you are at the table?
- Get Involved – We hear “be at the table” – what table? And what are you doing when you are at the table?
- Super Bowl 2014, GoldieBlox, a tech start-up that creates engineering toys for girls, offered up an advertising campaign to counter these images. The commercial, which to a catchy tune told girls to “ditch their toys and make some noise,” certainly did that on its own, bringing the controversy to light and serving as a catalyst for office discussions and reflection Kaye Toal, “Aren’t toys for everyone?” Goldie Blox, http://blog.goldieblox.com, Apr 1, 2014. http://www.wbur.org/npr/337565016/lego-releases-female-scientists-set-may-appease-7-year-old-critic http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/magazine-features/lets-hear-it-for-the-ladies-women/
- “Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.” Rosabeth Moss Kanter, “Future Quotes,” http://www.notable-quotes.com/f/future_quotes.html (accessed April 6, 2014).
- "Future is not a noun, it's a verb." - Bruce Sterling “Publications” Page, University of Hawaii, http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/publications.html (accessed April 6, 2014).