The information security profession is becoming increasingly competitive. In the employment market place of the future, certifications and education alone will not be enough to ensure achievement of your long term career goals. The increasing popularity of the profession and the competence of your competition will require that you take the reins of your career.
As companies focus more on profits and revenues, they are diverting resources away from the development of their employees. This attitude has greatly impacted the shared loyalty between employee and employer. In the future, the more effective you are in the management of your information security career, the greater the likelihood that you will achieve professional satisfaction. In essence, your career will be your business, and you will be the CEO.
The goal of this session will be to provide you with a framework for managing your information security career. By relating the different components of career management to traditional business functions, you will get a detailed understanding of how your career should be managed and how you can move past your peers by more than just luck. Subjects covered will include career planning, career investments, effective career marketing and branding, position selection and compensation negotiation.
You will leave the session with a solid foundation to enable you to better achieve your long term career goals and increase your satisfaction with both your current job and with the jobs you select in the future.
In this unique two hour guided session, The InfoSecLeaders, Mike Murray and Lee Kushner will provide Black Hat attendees with an open forum to ask questions relating to the management of their own information security career. The information shared will be pulled from their real world experiences in coaching and advising information security professionals on career related topics over the past decade as well as the questions they have received and answered in their Career Advice Tuesday column on their InfoSecLeaders blog.
Since the audience drives the program, questions will range across the entire gamut of all things that concern the Blackhat attendee and their career as an information security professional. Topics will include career planning, position selection, effective networking and personal branding techniques, and analysis of the information security employment market. In addition, tips will be provided on the topics of resume preparation, interviewing techniques, compensation negotiation and employee/employer relations.
This session is designed to provide Black Hat attendees with an alternative from the highly technical presentations. There will be an open door policy and is designed for attendees to have their personal career questions answered. Attendees can stay for 10 minutes or the entire 2 hours.
The goal is to deliver career content that the Black Hat attendees can apply and utilize to improve their personal information security career.
