Diversity Essential in Building Cybersecurity Talent Pipeline

In their RSA Conference session titled ‘Building the cybersecurity innovation pipeline’ in San Francisco on April 17 2018, Grant Bourzikas, CISO & VP McAfee Labs and Chatelle Lynch, SVP and Chief Human Resources Officer, McAfee Labs, discussed the importance of diversity in building a high-performing security team. Bourzikas, who has three hundred security professionals in his team – and insists on being present for the interviews of every single one – explained how important it is to sell the company to the interviewee. “I interview every person we bring in because we’re investing in them, but much of that time is spent on a sales pitch for working for McAfee,” he said. “My success is based entirely on the people that work for me,” he added.