Sr Director, Cyber Security Employee at GE Vernova

Gina Koch

Sr Director, Cyber Security

Gina works on the Gas Power Cyber Security team focused on vulnerability management, secure application development, systems recovery, security metrics, and security awareness.

“GE doesn’t put you in a box and expect you to stay there.”
- Gina

What attracted you to work at your company? How did you know it would be a good fit?: Coming to GE is a funny story. While working at a telecommunications company, we performed a best practice exchange with GE on IT processes. This is how I became connected and joined GE as an official employee six months later. I knew it would be a great fit from the interview questions. They wanted to understand my behaviors more than the library of technology I knew. I have learned so much being at GE and have been grateful for every step of the way.
What are you responsible for in your current role?: My team and I work on resolving system and application vulnerabilities. It is exciting and challenging because it is something new we have to chase every day. My team is also responsible for system recovery for our critical applications, connecting dots with security metrics and security awareness. These areas are so important as they are foundational processes that need to be in place to protect GE from letting cyber criminals in the door.
What are you working on right now that excites or inspires you?: What excites me the most is progress and efficiency. I love to see different transformations and improvements, especially in automation. There are two things that I am really excited about. One is improving our secure development processes and making it easier for developers to scan their code for vulnerabilities. The other is a side project where we have partnered with another team to automate access reviews. Even though this is outside our normal work, I am excited to see a manual process that takes weeks and months to complete and to trim it down to days and even minutes with automation.
What do you value most about your company’s or team’s culture? What sets it apart from other places you’ve worked?: The boundaryless mindset. What I mean about boundaryless are initiatives that you want to go after and the ability to create and innovate. If it is a good idea, makes good business sense, then go for it. GE doesn’t put you in a box and expect you to stay there. They want you to be a leader and drive things to help the business grow.
What’s one thing you would want a candidate to know about what it’s like to work at your company?: What has surprised me most about GE is the culture and the great business leaders. You get so many opportunities to learn, to try things out, to fail fast and get back up and go at it again. GE really focuses on behaviors especially collaboration, transparency, respect, and integrity. I haven’t seen this much focus on these attributes from other companies as I have seen at GE. It really makes a difference in setting the foundation and expectations of how we work.
How is your company committed to fostering an inclusive environment?: GE is very committed to fostering inclusiveness. This is one of the growth traits that have been measured in our performance reviews. We are a global company and are always reminded through regular communications, newsletters, and training of the different traditions and cultures of the people we work with. They really do a fantastic job at this. I feel it is a differentiator in making GE a great place to work.

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