Tribe of Hackers Security Leaders

39Greg Ose

“I've learned to start balancing my technical focus and expertise with empowering my team members to develop their skills and to take the lead on certain day-to-day work.”

Twitter: @gose1

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 ...