Putting Out the Fire: 4 Proven Strategies for Hiring and Retaining Security Talent

Title: Putting Out the Fire: 4 Proven Strategies for Hiring and Retaining Security Talent Presenter: Frank McClain Time: 1300 BSides San Antonio 2020 July 11th, San Antonio, Texas Abstract: As an industry, we have a Layer 8 problem, and it's our own fault! We say there's a talent shortage, and that we need good people; but once we get them, we just burn them out, leaving a trail of dissatisfied and unhappy workers behind us. This talk covers key strategies to change that - let's go! Speaker Bio: Frank McClain is a US Army veteran of the first Gulf War, and an accomplished cyber investigator with deep experience in digital forensics and incident response. He has worked as a DFIR consultant, managed security operations for a national financial services firm, and is a threat analyst and training lead within the Detection Engineering team of the Red Canary CIRT.