Tribe of Hackers

65Ben Tomhave

“There are plenty of highly experienced cybersecurity people in the market right now who would love to be working, and yet employers are completely unable to get out of their own way to get these folks on board.”

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Ben Tomhave is a security industry veteran, progressive thinker, and culture warrior. He holds an MS in engineering management from The George Washington University, has a BA in computer science from Luther College, and is a graduate of the BJ Fogg Behavior Design Boot Camp. Ben is CISSP certified and has previously held positions with Gartner, AOL, Wells Fargo, ICSA Labs, LockPath, and Ernst & Young (EY). He is former co-chair of the American Bar Association Information Security Committee, a senior member of ISSA, former board member of the Society of Information Risk Analysts, and former board member for OWASP NoVA. Ben is a published author and experienced public speaker, including engagements with the RSA Conference, MISTI, ISSA, RMISC, Secure360, RVAsec, and DevOps Connect, as well as Gartner events. He’s covered most topics in InfoSec, including application security, DevOps/DevSecOps, security architecture, data security, and encryption and key management.

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

Just one? Today, I think it’s the myth of the workforce ...