Cyber Security Agony Uncles

1st October 2024 - Cyber Security Agony Uncles | th4ts3cur1ty.company


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Stephen and Rich answer our viewers' questions. This month...

"I'm responsible for budget at one of your competitors, hush, hush. I'm responsible for allocating security practitioners onto projects for our customers. I'm also a senior securities VCSO myself, so not only am I delivering billable work, I oversee the other FTE consultants and make sure they are doing billable work correctly. So many of them aren't good. The business has hired graduates with absolutely no work ethic and I find it hard to resist parachuting in and doing the work myself to fix the problems they're creating. I'm absolutely exhausted. When I go to the business to discuss this, they make out it's a problem with my leadership style but trying to get work out of these grads is like trying to get blood out of a brick. My I also clarify that customers do not know that these are grads, they think that they are senior security practitioners. I'm the only senior and I feel like I'm the proxy for everyones knowledge."

Question: What do I do?

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