Culture is a hot topic in today’s business climate. Many books have been written on building a high performance culture, but few of them take in to account the special nature of security organizations. Building on 20 years of experience managing high performing security teams, Mike will examine the nuances to build a culture that enables you to recruit and retain talent within security. Additionally, he’ll focus on how to identify what kind of culture you’re in, ways to impact culture even if you’re not formally in a management role, and tactics for how to make the kind of culture that makes you and your team excited to come to work every day.
For over two decades, Mike has focused on building highly performing organizations that solve important and challenging problems in security. Most recently, he was the Chief Security Officer at Lookout, where he ran teams that discovered major threat actors in the mobile space and the protection of Lookout’s customer base of over 150M mobile users. He previously lead Product Development Security at GE Healthcare, where he built a global team to secure the Healthcare Internet of Things. Prior to that, he co-founded The Hacker Academy and MAD Security, and has held leadership positions at companies including nCircle Network Security, Liberty Mutual Insurance and Neohapsis.