Community-Led 💬 What's on the Minds of Early Adopters #14
Diverse hiring pipelines, digital drive thrus and IRL events!
Welcome to Community-Led. Each week we connect founders to dozens of early adopters and technology executives in fast growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. This newsletter surfaces the most interesting insights and conversations across the >1,000 members of the Decibel community every month. Let’s dive in!
One Big Trend Worth Your Time
Whether you are leading teams in cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure engineering or big data and AI, the race to attract, train, onboard and retain talent continues to be an extremely competitive one. Taking a creative approach to sourcing talent is critical and aggressively opening up the candidate pools to more diverse populations can accelerate the development of a talent pipeline.
Facing the challenge of “…an estimated 2.7 million unfilled cybersecurity positions…”1, the Decibel CISO Council discussed this topic at length recently and the ideas, stories and insights extended beyond the cyber security arena. One council member worked with the HR department to evolve resume filters to include non-college grads and not automatically rule out felony convictions. Another told of attracting people from other career fields (like finance or HR) and outreach into high schools (and even as far as middle schools) to begin to build awareness of IT, InfoSec and engineering career paths.
The council members also spontaneously crowdsourced a list of organizations they leverage (and invest in) to develop a more diverse and compelling pipeline of talent. We hope you find it helpful.
Women in Cyber Security (WiCys)
Do you have any other suggestions for organizations that help to develop a more diverse and compelling pipeline of talent? Share them with me in the comments below! 👇
The Watercooler: What we’re hearing in the Community
An Inside Look at Innovation
“With the exponential growth of software supply chain attacks, software supply chain security has been elevated to the list of top concerns of enterprise leaders today”, writes John Amaral, co-founder of Slim.ai. As CTOs and CISOs seek strategies and solutions to secure their infrastructure and software, Slim.ai is on a mission to help developers simplify their containers to make them less vulnerable to security threats by addressing the problem of WHAT gets shipped to production, not just how fast or how frequently teams can deploy.
Slim.ai demystifies containers by providing visibility and minimizing the unnecessary content in your containers leaving only that which is required to run in production. This gives developers the power to build better cloud-native applications with less friction, complexity, and waste. Slim.ai is also automating this historically laborious process to proactively reduce the attack surface of production software. Check out more on Slim.ai here.
Community Engagement(s)
It was great to see the Decibel community out in force at the well-attended RSA Security conference (reports peg attendance at 25,000+)!
Drop me a note to get on our invite lists for upcoming gatherings at DBT Coalesce, AWS re-Invent and more. 🙋🏼♀️
Decibel Friends and Family On the Move
🎉 Congratulations…
Bob West joins Palo Alto Networks as Chief Security Officer, Prisma Cloud
James Turnball promoted to SVP of Engineering at Sotheby’s
Kevin Fedigan moves to TD Ameritrade as Head of TD Wealth Management Technology
Daniil Bratchenko founds Integration.app
Matthew Dunlop heads to Visa as SVP, Security Architecture
Jake Yount jumps to Abnormal Security as VP, North America Enterprise Sales
Subbu Allamaraju joins Bill.com as VP of Engineering
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Abacus Makes Forbes’ AI 50 List
Credo AI Named as Technology Pioneer 2022 by World Economic Forum
See you next time.
Thanks for reading. This is a community that you’re always welcome to add to. If you have any feedback or know a story that’s perfect for this newsletter, please reach out. Email me at Stacey@Decibel.vc.
Stacey
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rscottraynovich/2022/06/09/at-the-rsa-conference-jobs-still-key-to-the-cybersecurity-crisis/?ss=cloud&sh=10a523c6360c