Rebecca Wynn has always had an affinity for education. She breezed through high school in two years and started college early, heading to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. She initially…
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These days it’s not uncommon for four-year-olds to tinker with computers, but in the 1970s, when Contra Costa County CISO Patrick Wilson was a four-year-old, access to a computer was…
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Mohammed Noordin Yusuff Marican was a typical young boy in Singapore in the 1980s. He was always out playing football and hanging out with his friends. “I was never home.”…
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Peter Fizelle spent many years working in cybersecurity, starting in an intelligence agency, onto managed service providers, consulting and then various commercial banks, first in Australia, then Singapore and most…
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It starts from the search Sometimes it’s the simplest things we happen to do that change the course of our lives. For Jason Witty, it is typing a four-letter word…
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In a job interview just out of college in 1995, Angel Redoble was asked if he had any experience with computers. An engineer by training, Angel said he had none.…
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You might say that John Whiting is a self-made Chief Security Officer. He didn’t start out to pursue any sort of information security career, or even an IT career. Whiting…
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Mark Eggleston says his entry into the CISO realm is a little more atypical than that of others. “I didn’t necessarily come from the network group. I didn’t necessarily come…
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Seth McCallister, Chief Information Security Officer, HUB International Protecting information assets for a Fortune 500 company and managing a farm may not appear to have much in common, unless you’re…
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Vanessa Pegueros, Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, DocuSign Vanessa Pegueros calls herself an “education nut.” She loves learning in all its aspects. “I’ve always loved math and science…
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