Tribe of Hackers Security Leaders

1Marcus J. Carey

“I'm a big motivator. I get people hyped up all the time.”

Twitter: @marcusjcarey • Website: www.linkedin.com/in/marcuscarey/

Marcus J. Carey is a cybersecurity community advocate and startup founder with more than 25 years of protecting government and commercial sensitive data. He started his cybersecurity career in U.S. Navy cryptology with further service in the National Security Agency (NSA).

Do you believe there is a massive shortage of career cybersecurity professionals?

This is going to be a little bit of cybersecurity heresy, but I don't believe that we need career cybersecurity professionals to be able to combat the risks that we currently have and will have in the future. If I could wave a magic wand, I'd enable all information technology, computer science, electrical engineers, etc., to be more knowledgeable, responsible, and accountable for cyber risk. That same magic wand would also eliminate most cybersecurity roles except for oversight and compliance.

We bridge the gap by making cybersecurity be part of everyone's job. Each area of responsibility should have cybersecurity stakeholders, such as system administrators, software developers, network engineers, etc. They should play a more accountable role. Together as a group, they would have more skin in the game because they would be directly to blame. I've seen too many times where security ...