All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series. The demand for cybertalent is sky high. It's very competitive to get those people with skills. What if you were to train your staff and give them the skills you want? Essentially, what if you were to grow your own unicorn? Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn. Joining us is our special guest, Jesse Whaley, CISO, Amtrak. Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Opal Opal is building the next generation of intelligent identity. Identity is one of the last great enterprise frontiers. It’s fragmented with legacy architecture. Opal's mission is to empower teams to understand and calibrate access end to end, and to build identity security for scale. Learn more by at www.opal.dev. In this episode: What if you were to train your staff and give them the skills you want? What if you were to grow your own unicorn? What’s the best way to grow your staff? How do you figure out the right mix of talent and prioritize the hiring, training, on the job, and other experiences?