Five Habits IT Security Professionals Need To Break

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By Tim Wilson
Dark Reading
September 25, 2013

CHICAGO -- (ISC)2 Congress 2013 -- If security professionals want to take 
their craft in new directions, then they need to stop thinking in old 
ways, experts said in a panel here Tuesday.

In a panel, entitled "Cyber Security -- Where the Industry Is Headed Next 
Year and Beyond," seven industry leaders said security is sometimes stuck 
in a continuous loop because professionals continue to make the same 
mistakes and sometimes have trouble thinking in new ways.

Five examples of bad habits that security pros need to break, according to 
the panel:

1. Treating IT security as something that's separate from the business "We 
need to stop approaching security as something technical that users and 
executives can't understand," said Spencer Wilcox, security strategist at 
Excelon. "Sell your executives on your security program -- gamify it, and 
make it interesting to your executives and your users."

"Be aware of what's happening at the business level," said Tony Vargas, 
technical leader for engineering at Cisco Systems. "Don't separate 
yourself from it."

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