Name: Paul-Arnaud WernertTitle: Senior Manager, Cyber Risk & SecurityEmployer: BeijafloreLocation: Paris, FranceYears in IT: 13Years in cybersecurity: 13Cybersecurity certifications: CISSP How did you decide upon a career in cybersecurity? I started to be interested in cybersecurity during my engineering studies. I led a team of students to perform an organizational and technical security audit of the network of a French public company. This was the first experience for me to understand one context, identify its threats and assess associated risks, then explain to the management these risks and the way to mitigate them. After this project, I decided to keep working on cybersecurity topics, up to now!  Why did you get your CISSP®? First I wanted to refresh and extend

Name: Hatem Ahmed El SahharTitle: Team Lead, Security EngineeringEmployer: Orange Business ServicesLocation: Cairo, EgyptYears in IT: 12 yearsYears in cybersecurity: 9 YearsCybersecurity certifications: CISSP, CCSP, CEH, Security+, Symantec Knight, Blue Coat Certified Cloud Service Troubleshooting, Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator, Blue Coat Certified Proxy Professional, Zscaler Certified Cloud Administrator, Cisco Certified ASA Specialist, CCNA Security, RSA SecurID Administration, Certified Clearswift Engineer (CCE) SECURE Email Gateway, JNCIA   How did you decide upon a career in cybersecurity? My vision was clear since my early days and after acquiring my bachelor degree in computer engineering I was decided to work in the IT field. After my graduation, I started to discover the different related fields and found myself attached to the role

Name: Paul McAleer (ISC)² Exams Passed: CAP and CISSP Title: Information Assurance Specialist Site Lead Employer: AlphaSix Corporation (Government Contrator) Location: Washington, DC Education: MS in Cybersecurity Years in information security: 2 years Certifications: Security+, ITIL V3, CCSK   What did you want to be when you were a child? Most of my family is musical, so I wanted to be professional guitar player. I started playing electric guitar at age 11. I played in bands and for my church. Playing guitar and writing music are still hobbies for me.   If you were given three more hours per day, what would you do with it? I would volunteer again at the Arlington Food Assistance Center where I interned. They

Name: Lucy Chaplin (ISC)² Exams Passed: CISSP Title: Manager Employer: Wavestone UK Location: London, UK Education: Bachelor of Science, Economics and Politics Years in information security: 4.5 Certifications: PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner, ITIL V3 What did you want to be when you were a child?A pop star, of course! And I also thought it would be fun to practice law — be a barrister, wear a big white wig and argue in front of a judge. If you were given three more hours per day, what would you do with it?The boring answer is get more sleep. But I would also read a lot more, I tend to save that for holidays. And I would also do more triathlon training, I’m

By Yves Le Roux, CISSP, CISM, Co-Chair, Europe, Middle East and Africa Advisory Council (EAC) Recently our GDPR Task Force has found that despite efforts to prepare for the incoming regulation, many practitioners are finding that there is actually a lot more to do than originally anticipated, and are still in “discovery mode” about what data they hold. Data being fragmented and contained within individual business units means that knowing where data sets reside and mapping their flow is proving challenging. Businesses have just realised the mammoth task ahead of them Many businesses are still stuck in the initial stages of establishing their inventories of information, or not yet having support from the board and business units of their organisations,