For the first installation of Security’s Leader to Leader column — for which I will interview security leaders across industries on their careers, their challenges and their views of risk and resilience every few months — I was fortunate to spend time with Shelley Benoliel, Head of Physical Security & Business Resilience at Zoom Communications, to talk about her career and her approach to the security industry.

A resume or CV is an important component for any job search tool kit. However, there are other, newer ways to enhance or present your qualifications that you may not have previously considered. Taken together, you will have a multitude of options available to showcase your talents to potential employees.

Increased reliance on automation and new technologies to assist with meter reading, leak detection and other operational goals have opened a host of attack surfaces. Given the ever-evolving and multi-faceted threat landscape, sharing and collaboration are essential to water and wastewater security and resilience.

GridEx has grown to be the largest distributed play exercise of its kind in North America, serving as a critical benchmark that maximizes the ability of organizations to coordinate with neighboring utilities and reliability coordinators to effectively exercise and address grid reliability issues.

As threats evolve from emboldened and increasingly sophisticated malicious actors targeting critical infrastructure, the electric sector has developed a holistic and shared-responsibility approach that has supported key improvements to the security posture and culture of electric companies.

By making resilience a priority for an organization, business leaders can reduce disruptions and lessen the consequences from risks that may materialize. To build a framework for the future, considerations must include preparedness, hazard mitigation, insurance and resilience in the context of emerging risks.

Ellen K. Tannor has been named Executive Director at the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC). 

All too often, people feel they need to push their personal limits at work, at the expense of their mental, physical and emotional health. How can leadership combat burnout across security teams by prioritizing an employee's well-being?

Disinformation, long used to spread and advance political ideologies, is now being used to damage Western corporations and economies, as reported by a new Network Contagion Research Institute study.

Many security teams are still playing catch up on the risks introduced by technologies that were rapidly implemented and poorly vetted during the pandemic, while also being forced to stretch resources to counter increasingly frequent sophisticated attacks. As we edge closer to the reality of hybrid work, it’s critical that security teams begin rigorously preparing.