How Cybersecurity Prepared Me to Become a CIO

As a cybersecurity professional, I spent 20 years guiding how information technology should be secured to support the mission of an organization. During these years, I was often told, “you have to think about how cybersecurity must balance the risk to the needs of the user community.” From this, I learned how to speak in academic and business language rather than in cybersecurity terminology.  In this presentation, I will share the skills I learned to talk beyond cybersecurity to achieve business decisions and broaden my career journey. Topics include:

• Creating a strategic approach
• Requesting budget
• Demonstrating value
• Building a team
• Communicating your story

Chief Information Security Officer, University of Wisconsin–Madison

CIO and IT Director, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison