“I spend a fair amount of time coaching and educating folks on how to handle personal communications and deal with the quirks that make each person unique.”
Bill Burns is currently Informatica's chief information security officer and head of privacy protection, ensuring that customers can trust Informatica with their most important data.
Bill has built and grown high-scale security programs at Accenture, Netscape, Netflix, and Informatica; worked security from both IT and R&D perspectives; and shaped information security investment strategies when in venture capital. His teams have been part of digital transformations on a global scale, incorporating security, compliance, and risk into companies' corporate DNA.
Bill has two computer security patents, is an active startup adviser, and in his free time trains disaster preparedness and emergency communicators in Northern California. Bill has 25+ years of security experience and holds degrees in electrical engineering and business from Michigan Technological University.
Do you believe there is a massive shortage of career cybersecurity professionals?
I believe there's a shortfall, but I don't believe it's as massive as we read in the press. When security is held as a corporate goal and incorporated into the organization's DNA, my thesis is that untapped capacity ...
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