The Cybersecurity Career Ladder

Overview

Sponsored by 1PASSWORD and MICROSOFT. No matter where you are in your career, gain direction and elevate your trajectory with AWIT. Understand and match yourself to the needs of your organization and its leaders. Featuring: * STEVE ZALEWSKI, former CISO, Levi Strauss * NANCY WANG, founder and CEO, AWIT; SVP, Head of Engineering at 1Password; Venture Partner at Felicis Ventures * PAUL BINGHAM, senior vice president and executive dean of Western Governors University; former member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Cybercrime Task Force * SWATHI JOSHI, vice president of SaaS cloud security at Oracle * GORDON YU, former CISO of Bedrock Security You will learn: * How security practitioners think * The cybersecurity career ladder * Differences in priorities across different security practitioners * Matching the correct security priorities to the correct organizations

Syllabus

Steve and Nancy intro the course

Learn about AWIT, your lecturers, and whether this Specialization is right for you!

Inside the mind of a CISO

What's it mean to be a security leader? Understand how to live with -- and excel under -- pressure and uncertainty, appease business demands, track relentless threats, and never have complete control of your work.

Optional: The cybersecurity job market

Think you can enroll in a cybersecurity degree program and be employed for life? It's harder than that. Many roles are aspiration, unfunded, or highly specialized. Learn how to best navigate the job market.