In this episode, Jeffrey talks with Dave Ruiz — aka “CyberDAve” — cybersecurity leader for the Public Works Commission in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Dave is an Army veteran with over 20 years of experience in information assurance and security, governance risk and compliance and IT/OT Security. And he plays a mean guitar. Jeffrey and Dave discuss movies in which a mentor/mentee relationship is critical to the plot, how gatekeeping is detrimental to the future of cybersecurity and why genuine mentorship is so important to move the industry forward.