By Tony Vizza, CISSP, CCSP, Director for Cyber Security Advocacy - APAC at (ISC)²
“Tony, why did you get into cyber security?,” I am often asked. Truth be told, I had an interest in IT from a very young age. In second grade, my classroom had an early model Apple which the teacher did not know how to use and which I taught her. In high school, I took computer studies as a subject. Following this, I enrolled and completed an undergraduate degree in computer science. My first job after graduation was as a programmer and network administrator within a large multinational travel agency. Later on, I worked in IT infrastructure design and architecture and even did a stint in sales and sales management. Of course, information security comprised a subset of my day to day technical work, but it was never the predominant part of my workday. So, it often comes as a surprise to people when I explain that my choice of dedicating myself entirely to cyber security only came about at the end of 2014.
Earlier that year, I had accepted a technical sales manager role at a mid-size systems integrator in Sydney, Australia. During that time, I was also studying an Executive MBA through the University of Sydney which included study at Stanford University in California. It was during this time that our cohort was assigned an industry project working with Silicon Valley based companies related to managing organisational growth.
The industry project was with Symantec. The project brief appeared simple: Develop a go-to-market strategy related to IoT security that Symantec could consider and potentially go live with. The cohort was split up in ..
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