Cimone Wright-Hamor works at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a cybersecurity researcher while pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. She has spent the last decade of her life interning at a variety of organizations. She has had ten internships at more than six different organizations, including public and private industries ranging from Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft to successful startups such as Smart-Ag, state government, and national laboratories.
Cimone has spent the last five years of her career working in the cybersecurity field. While completing research, she has helped protect the infrastructure for the State of Iowa and ensured that startup companies are developing software with security in mind.
In this episode, we discuss getting started in information security due to responding to an incident, an early upbringing which prepared her for cybersecurity, bridging theory to engineering, teaming with dev and security teams, the importance of project updates, increasing diversity in the industry, and so much more.
Where you can find Cimone:
#047 – Cody Cornell: Allow People to Focus on Interesting Things
#046 – Bret Fund: Trying To Solve the Talent Gap Problem
#045 – Kristinn Gudjonsson: You Don’t Want Analysts Spending All Their Time Extracting Data
#044 – James Carder: Automate As Much As You Can
#043 – David Navetta: The Year Of the Phishing Attack
#042 – Jared Coseglia: Those Numbers Are Real
#041 – Andrew Hay: Creative Solutions to Hard Problems
#040 – Michelangelo Sidagni: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
#039 – James Tarala: What Does the Risk Really Look Like
#038 – Eric Conrad: You Need To Be Interested Beyond 9 to 5
#037 – Johannes Ullrich: Solving That Puzzle In Your Network
#036 – Jorge Orchilles: Offense Informs Defense
#035 – David Kovar: Where Is the Best Application of Your Skill Set
#034 – Harlan Carvey: You Have To Apply the Data To Your Theory
#033 – Perry Carpenter: Security Culture Management
#032 – Ryan Kalember: We’ve Moved From Mass Surveillance to Targeted Attacks
#031 – Jobert Abma: All Bugs Are Shallow
#030 – Joseph Carson: We Need a People-Centric Approach
#029 – Don’t Hire Security Consultants
#028 – Brett Shavers: It’s Not the Machine, But the Examiner
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