Preparing for your first career or just a new career? Join Tess as she shares some of the top concerns voiced by project managers, clients, team members, and professionals in the information technology and information security environment. Find out what top ten complaints are voiced by those in the work place then learn about general business etiquette and professionalism that can help you stand out from your peers when interviewing for any position from entry level to the C Suite. Tess will share common protocols as well as tools and techniques anyone can use to brush up their first impression or fine tune where they currently are.

Tess is a CISO and mentor who works with a diverse range of individuals both professionally and personally. She believes that you should never let success get to your head or failure get to your heart. Tess has spoken and taught at a number of conferences to include DEFCON, Shmoocon, AIDE, and BSides on a variety of topics to include Counter-Intelligence and Insider Threat, Cryptography, Bio-Hacking, and Quantum Computing. Tess holds several academic agrees and certificates from multiple universities and strives to use her varied and vast experience to bring value to every project she contributes to. In her spare time she completes triathlons and is learning to dance the Argentine Tango.

Recorded at AIDE 2018