310- IT Leadership must understand the entire business, not just technology with Pete Self.

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Pete Self A former Air Force air traffic controller turned IT security expert, Pete Self brings a unique perspective to his role as VP of Information Technology Security at Nordam Group. With experience across eight companies over 25 years, Pete has developed a robust “toolbox” of skills. He emphasizes the importance of understanding business needs and balancing time, talent, and treasure in IT leadership. IT Leadership must understand the entire business, not just technology What makes a truly effective IT leader in today’s complex business landscape? Pete Self, VP of Information Technology Security at Nordam Group, shares his insights on the critical balance of time, talent, and treasure in IT management. Learn why seeking to understand the business is crucial, how to build a diverse “toolbox” of skills, and why picking the right organization is key to career success. Pete offers a fresh perspective on common IT leadership challenges and opportunities.

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0:00.0	Everyone out there listening to dissecting popular IT nerds, today we are talking with Pete Self,
0:07.4	vice president of information technology security for the Nordum group.
0:13.0	I'll pronounce that right.
0:13.9	All right.
0:14.2	This is actually a really good topic that I don't think we've ever talked about.
0:17.0	What makes a good conference?
0:18.9	You said there's only three worth anything.
0:20.7	So, all right. So you said there's only three worth anything so all right so you
0:22.0	said black hat um gartner surprisingly they go together defcon black head deafcon go together yeah
0:28.2	what is the criteria what is the criteria for a good conference i want to know and how can we make
0:35.2	it better and maybe i'll do one. Absolutely. Bringing something
0:38.0	home that's of value. We go to these conferences, like I said, there's two or three hundred people,
0:44.3	and it's the same topics over and over and over again. And so I think people are kind of worn out
0:48.9	on the on the conference front. We've just come out of COVID a couple of years ago where everything
0:52.8	was a phone conference.
0:56.7	And so we got to hear the same things over and over every month. But really what makes that conference is what is everyone else's experiences and what are they,
1:02.1	where are their pain points?
1:03.6	Got to listen to the FBI a couple of weeks ago in Oklahoma City.
1:08.3	And they brought in a really good, this hack happened, this is how it happened,
1:13.1	a little bit more details on what they were looking at and what's coming back their direction,
1:18.4	what they're seeing in the industry so that we know which way we should be going as far as tool
1:23.2	purchases, training and things like that. So it's just the entire world's really not about
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