Working in Cybersecurity: Life on the front lines, in the C-suite, and everywhere in-between by Michael Tanji

Author:Michael Tanji [Tanji, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2018-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

Who has been a mentor to you, and how important have they been to your success?

I’ve had a couple, but it’s been a little weird because a lot of my mentors aren’t actually in INFOSEC. I think I actually only really have like two in the security space who have really taken time and attention and effort to, like, really help me. Most of my mentors have actually come out of either business, or technology and policy.

The top one for me is this incredibly storied legend named Dale Hatfield,[85] who is the father of American telecommunications policy. He’s been the Federal Communications Commission chief technology officer or chief technologist multiple times. He’s been the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Information for the President of the United States. All these incredible roles. He’s a highly lauded technologist, and he lives in Boulder.

I met Dale when I was working in Congress. Somebody said, “Alex, you actually know things about computers, and you work here; why don’t you go hear Dale’s lecture on wireless telecommunications policy?” This is my first real introduction to wireless, which is where I spent most of my career working in government. Whether that was working as a Long Term Evolution (LTE) architect, or whether that was doing spectrum management policy, I started in wireless. So that’s how I met Dale. Fast forward four years … Jane Harman quits. She did not tell her staff. We found out watching it on TV in her office, and Dale offers to fly me, on his own dime, out to Boulder Colorado to look at the engineering program. And he fought to get me in the program, even though I didn’t have a background in math or engineering—like everyone else did—and you know he has been a close, personal friend for years. He taught me a lot about how to work with people … how to manage, how to manage yourself, how to manage your mouth, which I still don’t do.

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