Christian Toon - Talent, Hiring for the modern workplace & Information Sharing

We are joined by Christian Toon at InfoSec Europe 2018. Welcome to the latest episode of the Zero Hour Podcast and I’m your host Karl Sharman. Christian Toon, is the CISO at Pinsent Masons. Christian has spent the last 14 years successfully disrupting traditional approaches to information protection and management for large international organisations. From a career in end user security, moved into Big 4 Consulting to build a practice around ‘CISO for Hire’ services that involved engagements with financial and insurance services clients. Leaving PwC after nearly 3 years, joined Pinsent Masons to lead their information protection strategy across a firm of over 3200 employees around the globe. Three takeaways: - Make a lot of noise, to create disruption. - Hire on behaviour. - Behaviour and experience will go a lot further than qualifications. Key Minutes: 1:40 - Meeting Security 2:45 - Passion for Security 5:30 - Disrupting the industry 7:30 - Information Risk Sharing 12:30 - Law Sector 14:00 - People not in security 15:15 - There is no skills gap 20:00 - Team building exercises 20:20 - Recruiting on behaviour over skills 22:50 - Tom Langford 23:30 - Taking a wider approach 25:20 - Retaining talent 30:20 - Biggest tip for recruitment Connect with Christian on LinkedIn or Twitter. Connect with Pinsent Masons at: www.pinsentmasons.com Follow us: Twitter: @zero_hourpod Instagram: @zerohourexperience Website: www.karlsharman.com This podcast is sponsored by: BeecherMadden - www.beechermadden.com Cyber Security Professionals - www.cybersecurity-professionals.com