Disaster Recovery Journal Summer 2025

CAREER SPOTLIGHT

Create opportunities for new talent and provide an environment where the new talent can learn. In past years, the industry provided opportunity to learn on the job. Today, it feels like we’ve shut the door behind us. I’ve encountered many ambitious and curious, young, talented individuals who want to work in cyber and technology but feel like they can’t get through the door. My second piece of advice for job seekers is to stay hungry for knowledge. n Attend local cybersecurity and technology conferences to meet and interact with professionals who are currently in the field. Be sure to introduce yourself to at least five people while you are there. n Stay up to date on cyber/technology events. Demonstrate you are paying attention to current events in this space. n Continuing education. Cybersecurity and technology are ever-changing. Great professionals consistently look for learning opportunities and take intentional steps towards increasing their knowledge.

What aspects of working in this industry would you like to see change or evolve? New technology is arriving at an accelerated pace. I’d like to see the public and private sector entities find a way to shorten the regulatory policy lifecycle while allowing for innovation. As the pace of new technology solutions acceler ates, so should the pace to determine principles and rules to manage the risks of this technology. Let’s find a way for firms to receive some level of regulatory certainty while innovating and ensure financial authorities have a good under standing of the potential risks that may be introduced. I would also like to see the merging of operational resilience into the business continuity organization evolve. There are many aspects of operational resilience where the business continuity organiza tion is not empowered to make changes or drive solutions. We need better solutions. I’ll be speaking more about this at the upcoming DRJ Fall 2025 conference in Dallas.

What gets you excited about your career? The most exciting part of my career is the ability to work across the global financial service sector on one of the sector’s leading risks. Working with financial authorities on policy solutions, with different institutions on far reaching policy requirements such as the European Union Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and partnering with the trade associations to identify emerging risks to the financial sector, truly excite me. I’m energized and ready to continue to lead these discussions and drive solutions using my extensive knowledge in cyber security and IT. What advice would you give to those embarking on a career in this industry? In 2023, the US Treasury estimated there are 600,000 more cyber jobs than there are qualified people to fill them. The first piece of advice is for hiring manag ers in the cyber, business continuity, and technology sectors:

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