The Strength of Being Vulnerable: the experience from CIA, Tesla and Uber [eng]
Talk presentation
The leader must be strong all the time. The leader cannot afford to make mistakes, let alone fail in front of their team. Is that really true? Nick Gicinto, a cybersecurity leader with over 25 years of experience, who has worked for the CIA and has built security systems from scratch at Tesla and Uber, fully hiring teams for these projects, will talk about the importance of being vulnerable to build trust within a team.
Nick Gicinto
CISO at William Jewell College (Former CIA, Tesla, Uber, Chainlink Labs)
- Cybersecurity leader with 25+ years of experience
- Former CIA
- After his transition to the private sector he build from scratch insider threat programs at Tesla and Uber
- Was Vice President of RiskIQ, which is now part of Microsoft
- Professor of cybersecurity and CISO at William Jewell College in Missouri, as well as a guest professor at SET University