CISO Interview Series: Cybersecurity at a Global Scale
Joe Pettit: I would love to hear a bit about your journey into cyber security and how you ultimately became a CISO.
Mark Ruchie: My journey into security was not of my own doing. In 1986. I was a second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, and much like other people who’ve been in the military, you’re assigned a job. My job was something called, “Computer Security Officer.” I remember being rather disappointed because I was more interested in becoming a “real” computer person. I thought that was really the cutting edge. So, in 1986, I was handed one of the original Orange Books, which was one of the original data confidentiality books that were out there. I still have it to this day, and it’s probably more a historical remnant than anything.
I was pretty bored at the time because I thought that it was just a paperwork exercise. I left that after four years to work in Operations, which I really thought was where everything important was happening. However, I was always sucked back into security. Then in 1991, security changed. We had new Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT) and network intrusion detection devices, and this really caught my interest. I (Read more...)
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from The State of Security authored by Joe Pettit. Read the original post at: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/ciso-interview-cybersecurity-global-scale/