Making Our Profession More Professional - Bill Gardner

Recorded at Bsides Asheville 2015 on Saturday, June 27th, at Mojo Coworking in Asheville, NC. If Information Security professionals are going to be taken seriously by the organizations we serve, we need to become more professional. There are many ways of achieving this goal, but it's going to take culture change within our community. This talk will define this problem and offer some solutions on how to work toward solving this problem. Bill Gardner is an Assistant Professor at Marshall University, where he teaches in the Digital Forensic and Information Assurance Program. He is also President and Principal Security Consultant at BlackRock Consulting, and the Information Security Chair at the Appalachian Institute of Digital Evidence. Prior to joining the faculty at Marshall, Bill co-founded the 304Geek and Hack3rCon. Bill is the coauthor of "Building an Information Security Awareness Program: Defending Against Social Engineering and Technical Threats" with Valerie Thomas, which was published in August.