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We think that the best way to succeed in a security career is to pursue excellence every day, whether you’re already in your dream security job or just starting.

The pursuit of excellence may sound like a lofty or vague term, but you can make a difference every day by doing the following:

 Do your best job daily. No matter what you do for a living, be the very best at it.

 Maintain a positive outlook. Happiness and job satisfaction are due in large part to your attitude. Having a good attitude helps make each day better and allows you to do a better job. Because optimism is contagious, your positive outlook will encourage your co-workers, and pretty soon, everyone will be whistling, humming, or doing whatever else they do when they like their jobs. Have an attitude of gratitude.

 Continually improve yourself. Take the time to read about security practices, advances, developments, and changes in the industry. Try to figure out how innovation in the industry can help you and your organization reduce risk even more, with less effort.

 Understand your value. Take the time to understand how your work adds value to the organization; try to develop more ways to add value and reduce risk.

 Understand the big picture of security in your organization. Whether or not you’re responsible for some aspect of security, take the time to understand your organization's principles to increase security and reduce risk. Use the security and risk management principles in Chapter 3, and see how those principles can help improve security even more. Think about your role in advancing the cause of asset and information protection in your organization.

 Understand information security on a global scale. Take the time to understand big-picture trends globally: what nation-states pose the greatest threats, developments in security and privacy laws, workforce trends, and changing attitudes about information security. This information will help you stay current in this rapidly evolving industry.

If you make the pursuit of excellence a habit, you can change for the better over time. You end up with an improved security career, and your organization gets better security and reduced risk.