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Session

You Are the Incident: The Career Continuity Plan No One Gave You

Tech Theater 1

Starts: September 17, 2026 1:00 pm
Ends: 2:00 pm
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Abstract:

You spend your career hardening networks and protecting organizations, but when did you last assess your own career risk? Most cybersecurity professionals have no incident response or business continuity plan for the one event that potentially could impact all of them: losing your job. James McQuiggan knows firsthand. After an unexpected career disruption, he had to do what he teaches others to do and that’s assess the damage, triage the situation, and rebuild. Sounds like a typical cybersecurity event, but this time on ourselves. This session delivers the practical, no-nonsense career resilience framework every security practitioner should have before they ever need it.

Speakers

James McQuiggan

Advisory CISO / Founder, Apparent Security

James McQuiggan, CISSP, and author brings over 25 years of experience to the cybersecurity field and is the founder and Advisory CISO of Apparent Security, a consulting practice to help organizations deal with Human Risk Management, Artificial Intelligence, and social engineering, as well as vCISO for various organizations. His extensive background includes CISO Advisory at Knowbe4, providing thought leadership on various cybersecurity topics. McQuiggan was a senior cybersecurity roles at Siemens Energy and Wind Divisions, where he developed expertise in industry standards, incident response, and industrial control system (ICS) security. In addition to his corporate work, James serves as part-time faculty at Full Sail University, teaching Cyber Threat Intelligence. A dedicated community leader, he currently volunteers with ISC2 as Co-chair of the North American Region Advisory Council and Chair of the Southeast Chapter Regional Management Committee, following an eight-year tenure as President of the ISC2 Central Florida Chapter.