Desiree Sacher-Boldewin
Desiree Sacher-Boldewin is the Directing Manager of Operational IT Security at Finanz Informatik GmbH & Co. KG. She has been working in the cyber security industry for 20 years and spend the past years as a Manager at NVISO and Cyber Security Architect at Finanz Informatik before that. She focused her work on creating intelligent processes and workflows for IT security operations and she did this by utilizing all of her experience from various engineering and analyst positions held and publishing papers with her suggestions. From June 2022 to June 2024 she also was an elected board member of FIRST (the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams) and she still is the liaison chair for the Special Interest Groups. These days she unifies all of her experience in her manager role. Desiree is also a certified GCIA Forensic Analyst, Network Forensic Analyst, Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst and GIAC Penetration Tester. References to her work can be found on her GitHub on https://github.com/d3sre/ and she posts on Twitter as @d3sre, when she feels like she has something important to share.
Session
Cyber Security is not only challenging to get into (build a solid technical foundation, often in your free time, proof your worth in exams and certifications, hackathons, hiring exams, etc) but also hard to stay healthy in (constant fire fighting mode, being the dark voice and the shining light of the company conscience). In addition to that, you are surrounded by people who all had to proof their worth in infosec at some point in their life and it's sometimes hard to find other interests in their life that you could talk about with them.
This talk is about how you can survive infosec, especially if you have had your touchpoint with Burnout, and how you can manage yourself if you are just starting out.