A security manager might be turned off when a job candidate calls him “dude” several times during the course of an interview, but it was a minor infraction that Todd Borandi had to overlook. Like many security team leaders seeking highly sought-after technical skills for his incident response team, he had to let small transgressions slide.

“People with the mentality to do this type of work operate a little differently than those in an office setting,” says Borandi, who managed a U.S. Department of Energy incident response team before taking his current position as a lead security information architect at a New York financial institution. “[The job candidate] was a brilliant young man,” Borandi recalls. He got hired and is now a successful senior analyst.

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