We’re All Scared, Too: 10 Years of Lessons from Cybersecurity Mentorship
Lesley Carhart
For the past decade, Lesley has been running career clinics for job seekers and changers in cybersecurity. For the past year, they have added on 1:1 mentorship office hours. Helping people choose career trajectories and overcome hurdles in employment has been a fascinating window into the fears, insecurities, concerns, problems, and victories of a wide range of people who work (or want to work) in cybersecurity. Many of their challenges are more universal than people are brave enough to admit, and everyone can learn from them to have a happier career.
Presented by:
Lesley Carhart
Technical Director, Industrial Incident Response, Dragos
Lesley Carhart is a Chicago-based Digital Forensics and Incident response professional specializing in investigations of industrial control system networks. They currently work for the industrial control cybersecurity company, Dragos, Inc – investigating intrusions into utilities, manufacturing, and transportation systems. Lesley speaks, teaches, and blogs about the topic around the world. In their free time, Lesley runs a virtual conference, as well as resume and career clinics for cybersecurity job-seekers, as well as teaching small kids to kick things. They are honored to have received awards like DEF CON Hacker of the Year and SANS Difference Maker Lifetime Achievement.
