Whether you're searching for new or additional opportunities, information security can be vast and overwhelming. In this practical guide, author Christina Morillo introduces technical knowledge from a diverse range of experts in the infosec field. Through 97 concise and useful tips, you'll learn how to expand your skills and solve common issues by working through everyday security problems.
You'll also receive valuable guidance from professionals on how to navigate your career within this industry. How do you get buy-in from the C-suite for your security program? How do you establish an incident and disaster response plan? This practical book takes you through actionable advice on a wide variety of infosec topics, including thought-provoking questions that drive the direction of the field.
- Continuously Learn to Protect Tomorrow's Technology - Alyssa Columbus
- Fight in Cyber Like the Military Fights in the Physical - Andrew Harris
- Keep People at the Center of Your Work - Camille Stewart
- Infosec Professionals Need to Know Operational Resilience - Ann Johnson
- Taking Control of Your Own Journey - Antoine Middleton
- Security, Privacy, and Messy Data Webs: Taking Back Control in Third-Party Environments - Ben Brook
- Every Information Security Problem Boils Down to One Thing - Ben Smith
- Focus on the WHAT and the Why First, Not the Tool - Christina Morillo
Christina Morillo is an information security/cybersecurity and technology leader with expertise in enterprise security engineering, identity & access and cloud. Her extensive experience in enterprise security and identity, insider threat, cloud identity programs & deployments, have taken her to companies like Morgan Stanley, Fitch Ratings, AllianceBernstein, and Microsoft.
Christina advocates for and is passionate about meeting people and companies where they are. She is also a proponent of making security practical, accessible and easy to digest (sometimes with the help of basketball analogies).
In addition to her professional work, Christina co-leads Women in Security and Privacy's NYC Chapter, and volunteers with multiple organizations aligned with her mission of getting more women and underestimated folks into tech. In 2015, she also co-founded #WOCinTech Chat, the grassroots initiative best known for boosting visual representation through the open-source collection of stock photos featuring women of color technologists. With over 100 Million views and counting, the images have been used across countless mediums and have inspired other collections in the process.
