The Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification is considered to be the gold standard in information security. This is so because of all the doors that certification opens to a CISSP professional. Those doors lead to many different types of positions and opportunities, thus making the information security community dynamic and multifaceted.
In support of this, (ISC)² has launched a series of interviews to explore where CISSP certification has led security professionals. In our last interview, we met Jason Lau. In this installment, we meet James Wright. He is a cybersecurity technologist with The Walt Disney Company. He is also a U.S. Air Force veteran and graduate of the University of Denver holding a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Security and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Information Technology.
What job do you do today?
I work at a Fortune 100 Media and Entertainment company operating within the Information Security Architecture and Engineering group on the Cloud Security Services team. I'm responsible for the service management of the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) system, which protects hundreds of thousands of employees across the globe. It encompasses shadow IT usage monitoring and service discovery as well as sanctioned IT data loss prevention in the cloud. This system enforces security, compliance, and governance policies within our cloud applications. The mission of the service is to provide our risk management program with a robust dataset for policy-making and incident handling. I also work with my team on leading risk assessments, authoring position papers, security architecture eva ..
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