Building a Diverse, Skilled and Evolved Security Team

In the fast-paced and data-driven modern landscape, a key element of a team’s success requires several layers of diversity – from thought to skill level, through to past experiences and future ambitions. Effective security teams are those built with diverse groups of highly-skilled specialists and broadly-adept generalists. While traditionally organisations have opted to create a list of required security specialities and then tried to hire a team that can cover as many as possible, a fresh approach focuses on the skill sets of existing employees within the organisation and moulds security roles to meet those abilities. This can often include introducing engineers from outside the security team to contribute their first-hand project experience and customer-facing support team members who best understand current user challenges or feedback. In this webinar, a panel of experts will discuss the importance of having a diverse and inclusive security team and outline how organisations can build modern security teams best-suited to their business needs. Key takeaways: • The power of cultivating a diverse and evolved security team • Why internal hiring of staff outside the security function can benefit the organisation as a whole • Strategies for developing cross-functional teams, including the importance of apprenticeship schemes and ‘Security Champions’