[ISN] 5 secrets to building a great security team

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:21:57 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.csoonline.com/article/688812/5-secrets-to-building-a-great-security-team

By Lauren Gibbons Paul
CSO
September 18, 2011

For a security industry leader, Tim Williams is a pretty modest guy. As 
the former head of ASIS International and now as global security 
director for the $42.5 billion construction equipment manufacturer 
Caterpillar, Williams has won his share of recognition, which he doesn't 
take lightly.

But Williams would much rather tell you about his team—the individuals 
and their accomplishments—than about himself. His speech is strikingly 
devoid of the first-person singular. He declines to be photographed by 
himself for articles about his security work, saying his team members 
deserve the credit.

Creating and sustaining team spirit are clearly strong suits for 
Williams, who joined Caterpillar in 2006 after leadership stints at 
Nortel, Boise Cascade and Procter & Gamble. In a home-office-centric 
culture that valued longevity with the business, he quickly set about 
assembling a team that would embody the precepts of what he calls 
contemporary enterprise security risk management (ESRM).

Here are the top five things he did to revitalize the team and mitigate 
risks across the entire enterprise:

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