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As a senior manager of security engineering at GitHub, Greg leads a team dedicated to finding and fixing vulnerabilities within GitHub's products and applications. He has a strong passion for keeping applications secure, whether through security assessment, automation and static analysis, or developer training and awareness. For more than a decade he has focused on application security, previously securing applications at CME Group, as a senior security consultant at Neohapsis, and as an adjunct professor at DePaul University teaching a graduate course on software security assessment and exploitation.
Do you believe there is a massive shortage of career cybersecurity professionals?
I do not believe that there is a massive shortage of cybersecurity professionals. However, meeting the growing needs of this industry will require us to change our pre-existing ideas about the required background and experience of individuals on a security team. Not all experienced security engineers will come with a decade of heads-down security work. The key to expanding hiring reach is to look for great engineers with a passion for security. For example, my team members spend a large part of their ...
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