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Tipton on (ISC)2 training, strategy and women in information security

Tipton on (ISC)2 training, strategy and women in information security

Tipton on (ISC)2 training, strategy and women in information security

Date: Sep 23, 2011

In this interview, conducted at the first annual (ISC)² Security Congress in Orlando, Executive Director W. Hord Tipton details (ISC)²training strategy, including the growing demand for information security professionals, and the ways in which the organization seeks to help meet that demand for as many as two million more infosec pros via its training seminars for kids, the new (ISC)² Foundation and new scholarships to help advance the cause of women in information security.

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