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Who’s Talking Cyber at Your Company’s Grown-up Table?

By Alex Lating, Product Marketing Manager, Hexis Cyber Solutions

So hopefully I’m not the only one who used to sit at the “kids table” during big family meals. I’m not
really sure when it was decided that one was old enough to make the move to the grown-up table,
but when that day finally arrived… it was a big deal.

Well, the day has come at last for security professionals to take their place at the adult table. It
wasn’t long ago that we didn’t even have cybersecurity teams, let alone someone who effectively
represented them in the overall conversations of the business.

But with the breach environment we’re facing, and major companies making the headlines with
cyber-attack news, it’s not surprising that the tides are turning.

Two organizations that are making this change in big ways are Uber and Parsons.

Uber announced earlier this week that they are quadrupling the size of their cybersecurity staff.

After an attack in the beginning of 2015 in which information on over 50,000 drivers was
compromised, the company knew they needed to step up their cybersecurity game.

The taxi-ordering servicer brought on Joe Sullivan as their new CSO and as he realized the
challenges he would face in ensuring that unauthorized users don’t gain access to sensitive data,
he knew he needed a larger team.

Sullivan made the call to grow the team from 25 people to 100 by the end of the year.

Another company making big hiring decisions on the security side is Parsons Corp., a construction
and engineering company based in California.

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