Dedication has defined Phillimon Zongo’s career. His path, from an initial interest in leadership and technology to his current roles as a virtual CISO at a number of organizations and Co-Founder and CEO at the Cyber Leadership Institute, is marked by his willingness to learn and apply himself across technical and soft skills.
Zongo defines the start of his cybersecurity career as taking place in 2014, when he first recognized a shift in high-level conversation around the topic. “I realized around 2014 that cybersecurity was starting to dominate discussion in boardrooms and had zoomed to the top of every corporate risk profile. Instead of spreading myself thinly across every technology and risk aspect, I decided to go deep into cybersecurity, and it’s a decision that I never regretted,” he says.