InfoSec and network director with a background in disk forensics, incident response, and building & maturing security programs. Experience working within the DoD, LE, and private industry.
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@iokiwi I’m a director. I have 4 managers that cover security operations and network services globally. All four managers have a decent amount of experience and a lot of autonomy. We have two short scheduled meetings a week and they reach out to me in email, chat and calls for time sensitive things and know my (virtual) door is always open.
The teams have their own regional stand ups on a regular basis and global sync ups. The cadence is determine by the team. I don’t always attend those frequently so the managers can have frank conversations without a director on the call. There is a 3x week company wide operational sync call/local CAB that managers and directors attend too.
Primarily I get my info from a standardized status report that the teams initially hated doing but now that I don’t call them all the time for ad hoc info they like it. It’s has a combo high level project status summary and “narrative” context where the team highlights roadblocks for me or the manager to clear among other things.
I routinely offer one-on-ones to anyone on the team that wants to do “skip levels” and I have several people from all 4 teams that take me up on it. Sometimes it’s work related sometimes it just shooting the shit.
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