Is Crowdsourcing Your Security Plan a Career Risk?

Crowdsourcing your company’s security plans in professional forums can help you solve problems. However, it can also quietly damage your credibility and long term career prospects if you are not intentional about how you participate.

The core issue is not whether you ask questions. It is what those questions signal about your competence and judgment to people who participate in the forum and who may one day decide whether to hire you.

Networking itself is a positive activity. Building relationships with other security leaders is one of the most reliable ways to learn. It can help you identify potential job opportunities and advance into bigger roles. Professional associations and online communities give you visibility with peers and decision makers, and many senior security roles are still filled through referrals that start in these online and offline groups.

The problem arises when your networking activity becomes public crowdsourcing of how to do core elements of the job you already have…

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