Security Hiring Tips with Code Red's Tom Alcock

In this week’s episode, Tom Alcock joins our host, Alex Bovee. Tom is a co-founder and partner at Code Red Partners, a cyber security recruitment practice built to help companies mature their security programs and scale teams, by bringing on top notch security professionals from engineers to senior level leaders. Hiring is hard, and hiring quality security professionals is even harder. Code Red saw this need and made it their super power – finding and connecting the right security folks to the right companies. In the interview, Tom dives into how Code Red helps companies form realistic hiring expectations, how to find talent “outside of the box,” and tips around making your first security hire. What’s inside: Code Red Partners’ origin story Making the first security hire Tom and Code Red’s hiring philosophies Why unconventional hiring is not something to be afraid of