CyberSecurity Careers; What are the Opportunities?

CyberSecurity, one of the most talked about topics today in terms of connected technologies; how will we prevent our autonomous vehicles from being hacked, how can we ensure that the Internet of Things devices we bring into our home are secure and not putting our families at risk? What about mobile banking - is it really safe or is it going to give someone access to our bank account and put us at risk?

Firms across the connected tech eco-system are in need of cybersecurity professionals, and the need is only expected to grow. But what does that really mean in terms of the types of jobs that are available, and what's the real picture of the demand level? To help us understand and provide answers to these questions Mobile Monday Detroit will hear from a talent recruiter who specializes in cyber talent recruitment, as well as workforce policy & research analyst who will help us compare the demand in Michigan to the US and other parts of the connected tech eco-system.

Additionally, we'll be joined by a panel who makes their living in the cybersecurity field so they can share with us answers to such questions as:

• What type of education is needed to do the work?

• What's a typical day like?

• What are the pros & cons of this type of work?

• What do you find about the work that is different than pre-employment expectations?

• What can you do to prepare for such a career that will ensure your success?

The event is free to attend but advance registration is required via Meetup. Refreshments will be served courtesy of our host/sponsor, RIIS (http://riis.com/). Free parking is available.

Mobile Monday Detroit is being sponsored by the Mobile Technology Association of Michigan (http://gomobilemichigan.org/) and RIIS (http://riis.com/).

Our Speakers:

• Colleen Riccinto, Founder, Cyber Talent Search

• Hector Acosta, Research & Policy Analyst, Workforce Intelligence Network (WIN)

• Panel members

• Jane Harper, Director - Privacy & Security Risk Mgmt Svcs, Henry Ford Health Systems

• Godfrey Nolan, Founder/CEO, RIIS

• Barbara Ciaramitaro, Director, Center for CyberSecurity Leadership, Walsh College

• Natalie Blackbourne, President, Blackbourne Worldwide

• Lou LaBrecque, Executive Vice-president, Authen2cate

Speaker Bios:

Colleen Riccinto, Founder, Cyber Talent Search

Don't think of Colleen Riccinto as one of "those recruiters." She shoots from the hip, speaks from the heart, and brings 15 years of experience in sales, security training, and leadership to her role. Colleen is the founder of Cyber Talent Search in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Previously Colleen spent thirteen years in the insurance industry consulting with organizations on data breach prevention and educating employees about identity theft in the workplace. She was an Executive Director at IDShield, a leading provider of identity protection plans, where she built and led a high-performance team that advised hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of employees.

Colleen is a member of the Michigan InfraGard, recently completed the Connected Vehicle Professional 1 course, and is a Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist. She earned a Master of Arts in Written Communication from Eastern Michigan University and a Bachelor of Music from Duquesne University.

Hector Acosta, Research & Policy Analyst, Workforce Intelligence Network (WIN)

Hector Acosta is a Research & Policy Analyst at Workforce Intelligence Network (WIN). He works directly with the Director of Research and Director of Business Partnerships on a variety of projects. Hector assists with WIN's quarterly reports, ALMMII supply and demand analysis, MAGMA mobility research and employer outreach, and fulfilling specialized data requests.

Jane Harper, Director - Privacy & Security Risk Mgmt Svcs, Henry Ford Health Systems

Jane Harper has over 18 years of Risk, Compliance, Audit and Security experience. Throughout her career she has established and supported security, compliance, audit and risk functions for various types and sizes of organizations. She also has a strong technical background having been a network administrator and IT leader. Jane also has experience implementing controls unique to healthcare and financial services, two of the more heavily regulated industries, having spent over 10 years on both the provider, and insurer side of healthcare and 6 years on the operations and consulting side of financial services.

Jane's career includes developing the strategy, designing the solution, implementing and maintaining various risk, compliance, audit and security programs and practices domestically and internationally on multiple continents. Throughout her career Jane has interfaced with various levels and types of regulators, acquiring banks, and key customer organizations for various programs including HIPAA privacy and compliance, and solvency risk management requirements to name a few.

Jane has published on compliance and risk management, been cited and interviewed by industry publications like Information Week and Detroit Crain's Business. Her quantitative statistical analysis work was used as a student supplement to the McGraw-Hill Visual Statistics book. Jane has been recognized as one of Crain's 40 under 40, Oakland County Elite 40 under 40 class and Techweek's Top 100 - Detroit. Jane's contributions to her field through affiliations with organizations like GAISP, ISSA, PCISCC and WEDI have helped to shape the HIPAA, CRISC, CRCMP, ISA, PCIP, CISSP and both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Godfrey Nolan, Founder/CEO, RIIS

Godfrey Nolan is the founder and President of the mobile and web development company RIIS LLC based in Troy, MI and an Adjunct Professor at Lawrence Tech. He is also an author of "Agile Android", "Bulletproof Android", "Android Best Practices", "Decompiling Java" and "Decompiling Android".

Godfrey has spoken at several DroidCons, AnDevcons JavaOne, ASP-Connections VSLive, Codemash, CodePaLOUsa, 1DevDay and many local Java and .Net user groups on a wide range of topics such as Continuous Integration, Agile Development and Agile Security.

Barbara Ciaramitaro, Director - Center for Cybersecurity Leadership, Walsh College

Dr. Barbara L. Ciaramitaro is the Lead Professor of the Information Technology / Cybersecurity Department, and the Director of the Center for Cybersecurity Leadership, at Walsh College. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on a variety of topics including cybersecurity, emerging technology, complex systems dynamics, software engineering and project management. Dr. Ciaramitaro is a frequent speaker and author on cybersecurity, current technology issues, business intelligence, data and decision-making, project management, and mobile technologies. She has authored and edited books on quality assurance, virtual world technologies, mobile technology, privacy, security, social engineering and forensics.

Natalie Blackbourne, President, Blackbourne Worldwide

Natalie Blackbourne is the President of Blackbourne Worldwide, a cybersecurity company that specializes in cyber threat analysis and mitigation, social engineering, and security research. Natalie's background focused on deception and credibility analysis, with specialization in forensic interviewing and facial expressions. She has dedicated her life to the study of influence and manipulation, and she works with corporate institutions to educate and increase awareness of "human hacking", or social engineering, which is the art of coercing an individual using psychological and linguistic methods.

Using her Master's in Emotions, Deception and Credibility as a foundation, Natalie has developed a Social Engineering training platform both for the Ethical Social Engineer and for Defensive Strategy. Her passion lies in educating the public not only on how to be a Social Hacker, but also to caution of the dangers on the advances and increased reliance on technology. Her desire to educate also extends to building programs for women to feel more comfortable in transitioning to the male-dominated field of cybersecurity, as well as creating alternatives for young hackers to have ethical and educated outlets.

As a self-professed nerd pursuing her PhD in Social Intelligence, Natalie enjoys researching and writing in her space time. Her goal is to take complex psychological ideas and make them mainstream and understandable, while emphasizing the intricacies of the human psyche and the challenges of integration emotions into Artificial Intelligence. In her pursuit of knowledge, Natalie hopes to bring her research to the public as a story to make it more enjoyable. In her spare time, Natalie enjoys learning about herbal medicine and biohacking.

Lou Labrecque, Executive VP - Sales & Operations, Authen2cate

Lou LaBrecque is Authen2cate's Executive Vice President of Sales and Operations. He is a member of the executive team at SolvIT, the parent company of Authen2cate. Lou steers Auten2cate's strategy on product development, market alignment, and company expansion in the Identity & Access Management space.

Prior to joining Authen2cate, Lou has held executive level positions at other large consulting firms such as CIBER and RCM Technologies, where he was the Vice President of their Microsoft Solutions group.

Lou has a degree in Management Information Systems and brings more than 25 years in the IT sector to bear upon his work at Authen2cate. His background also includes application development & project management roles as well as tenures in large scale program management and account management.