Tribe of Hackers

10Lee Carsten

“There is also a digital transformation occurring, and many of the new jobs will be substantially different from the security jobs we know today.”

Twitter: @lcarsten • Website: www.linkedin.com/in/leecarsten

Lee Carsten is a vice president at Aon Cyber Solutions. Based in the firm’s Dallas office, he is responsible for developing and growing the firm’s relationships with enterprise clients, helping them proactively manage and control their risk and reactively respond to incidents. Lee is also the president of the Alamo Information Systems Security Association and a steering committee member on EC Council’s Global CISO Forum. In this capacity, he helps information security leaders build relationships with their peers, get recognition for innovative initiatives they are leading, and give back to their communities. He is active in a number of other security organizations, including the Open Web Application Security Project, InfraGard, CyberPatriot, and the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. Lee is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, where he studied engineering and business, and has a degree in Accounting and Computer Information Systems.

If there is one myth that you could debunk in cybersecurity, what would it be?

That the security profession has a million open jobs, and we just need to attract and train more people to fill all of the open ...