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Dave Farrow: The guy that enabled the business. [Security leadership] [Career Notes]

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

Tech News, Daily News, News, Technology

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

VP of Information Security at Barracuda Dave Farrow shares how a teenage surfer fell in love with software development and made his way in the cybersecurity field. Dave chose to study electrical engineering in college because he wanted to learn something that didn't make sense to him. He says he's done things in his career that he said he'd never do: for example, he went into and fell in love with software development. Taking on leadership of a bug bounty program at Barracuda blossomed into the creation of an internal security team. Dave wants to be the guy who enables the business and not the one who prevented it. He hopes all will come to recognize that there are other threats besides cybersecurity threats to business. We thank Dave for sharing his story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I am.

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I am.

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I am Dave Faro, I am a senior director of information security at Barracuda Networks and I'm responsible for their entire internal security program. At the end of high school, my father was into technology.

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