Breaking into Information Security

Chapter 3.c.1

Tier 3—Lateral: Entrepreneur—Story

Keywords

education

training

life

origin story

career path

entry level

alternate-entrepreneur

Greg Sullivan

Greg Sullivan was a double math/music major. His goal all along was to make enough money in computers to go back to making music for a living. In the 01980s and 01990s, he did business software.

I remember our CTO for the company gave a talk to the whole company. He said, “Here’s the deal with email, don’t press send unless you are willing to stand on top of the building and shout the message with a megaphone. Once you press send you expose it to the Internet, where it’s available to anyone with the means and the intent.” That was a big eye-opener. I can remember where I was standing, I can ...