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Cyber Leadership and Ethics

Everyone Has a Plan Until They Are Punched in the Mouth: Stories from the Cybersecurity Ring

Wednesday, October 29, 2025
9:10 AM - 10:10 AM CT
Location: Volunteer C
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Failure is something that we all face throughout our career. Instead of shunning failure we need to embrace it. During this panel discussion, you will hear stories from seasoned cybersecurity professionals on how failure created growth in their careers.

From misconfiguration of technical controls, process failure or misalignment of job function, failure is inevitable. It is important to turn that failure into opportunity and our panel will bear their largest career missteps with the goal of embracing failure.

Passing exams will get you the knowledge, but failures will get you the cybersecurity scars needed to give you the necessary grit for your career growth. Failures can also give you the necessary tools to help grow a stronger cybersecurity team and program.

Learning Objectives:

  • Gain insignts through listening to personal experiences on how career failures can be instrumental to your cybersecurity career.
  • Learn how to embrace failure to quickly grow their cybersecurity careers.
  • Develop skills that allow you to take what you learned from your failures and thrive from them.