Tribe of Hackers Security Leaders

12Lesley Carhart

“Being a good leader requires you to set aside your ego and fully understand the needs, strengths, and weaknesses of each of your team members.”

Twitter: @ian_InfoSec • Website: www.linkedin.com/in/lcarhart

Lesley Carhart is a principal threat analyst for the Threat Operations Center at the industrial cybersecurity company Dragos, Inc. She is recognized as a subject-matter expert in cybersecurity incident response and digital forensics, regularly speaking on the topic at conferences and universities. She has spent the last 11 years of her 20+ year IT career specializing in information security, with a heavy focus on response to nation-state adversary attacks. Prior to joining Dragos, she was the incident response team lead at Motorola Solutions, performing digital forensics and incident handling services for both enterprise and public safety customers. In 2017, Lesley was named a “Top Woman in Cybersecurity” by CyberScoop news and received the “Women in Technology” award at Guidance Software's Enfuse Conference.

In her free time, Lesley co-organizes résumé and interview clinics at several cybersecurity conferences, blogs and tweets prolifically about InfoSec, and is a youth martial arts instructor.

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

I find the question that is routinely asked, “Is there a cybersecurity skills ...