Today's Cyber Work Podcast features Dr. Chanel Suggs, the Duchess of Cybersecurity®. Dr. Suggs is a teacher, business owner and thought leader and has appeared on TV and podcast platforms around the world to talk about cybersecurity and the hacker mentality. She also had an incredibly challenging and seemingly insurmountable upbringing. Her tumultuous story can be found in her book, “Against All Odds: Overcoming Racial, Sexual and Gender Harassment on the Digital Battlefield.” This episode contains a lot of heartbreak and some challenging stories, as well as incredible insights and some thoroughly important takeaways.

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0:00 - Free cybersecurity training resources
0:56 - Overview of today's episode
1:58 - Who is Chanel Suggs, the Duchess of Cybersecurity?
3:12 - Overcoming family obstacles
4:50 - What drew her to a career in cybersecurity
8:10 - First steps to learning IT and cybersecurity
10:45 - Earning cybersecurity certifications
12:20 - Making a cybersecurity training "dungeon"
14:40 - Workplace abuse and harassment
18:28 - Issues with hiring diverse candidates
22:23 - What is Wyvern Security?
27:25 - Changing the workplace culture
32:47 - Social media is key to finding diverse candidates
36:55 - Preventing burnout with employees
40:10 - Advice on earning advanced degrees
42:03 - Contract work vs. full-time employee
43:34 - Free resources and services
44:52 - What's Chanel Suggs book about?
47:48 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Learn all about emergency response — and the myriad techniques and skills that term implies — in today's episode featuring Christopher Tarantino, CEO of Epicenter Innovation. Is there a physical security component? Yes! Is there a cybersecurity component? Big time! Is there an educational element? Absolutely! Find out how disaster planning, preparation, remediation and post-event rebuilding and improvement are all opportunities to strengthen your security posture.

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0:00 - Free cybersecurity training resources
0:56 - Overview of today's episode
1:47 - Who is Christopher Tarantino?
3:25 - What does an emergency response team do?
4:38 - Resilience in emergency response
7:45 - Importance of boring innovation
9:30 - Higher ed emergency response example
13:13 - Healthcare, higher ed and government resilience
16:00 - Years-long education around disasters
21:03 - Biggest cybersecurity blind spots
25:00 - Skills required for emergency response careers
30:00 - Importance of communication across community
35:50 - Transitioning careers from cybersecurity to emergency response
44:10 - Learn more about Epicenter Innovation
44:35 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

If you want to learn more about working with operational technology (OT) and internet-connected devices, then don't miss today's episode with Francis Cianfrocca, CEO of Insight Cyber Group. He discusses security problems around OT and IoT systems and shares some surprising stories of intruders in the electrical grid. He also talks about why it’s so hard to secure a set of machines that often pre-date computer technology and the small changes in your community that can make huge differences in the entire security industry.

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0:00 - Free cybersecurity training resources
0:56 - Overview of today's episode
1:48 - Who is Francis Cianfrocca and Insight Cyber? 
2:15 - Getting into tech and cybersecurity
4:13 - Francis' job roles and companies
5:22 - Early days of ICS systems security
10:15 - CEO duties at a cybersecurity startup 
12:19 - Why is infrastructure security so bad?
16:05 - Different approaches needed for ICS and IOT systems
20:23 - Catching intruders early on with industrial systems
22:45 - Using artificial intelligence in ICS security
24:50 - Bad actors are really good at reconnaissance
27:20 - ICS and IOT environments cannot have downtime
30:00 - Asset and behavioral inventory is difficult
31:42 - Real-world examples of rogue ICS software
36:30 - ICS vs. IOT security
42:57 - How to promote industrial security careers
46:07 - Impact of AI on cybersecurity careers
48:40 - Preparing for an ICS cybersecurity career
51:07 - What's Insight Cyber working on?
52:45 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Last year, Cyber Work Live brought you into the world of cybersecurity project management — with tips for acquiring your skills, improving your resume and getting your foot in the door. But what does the day-to-day work of cybersecurity project managers look like?

Jackie Olshack and Ginny Morton return to answer that question. They’ll also share experiences they’ve gained while working on some of their biggest projects!

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0:00 - Intro
0:50 - Who is Jackie Olshack? 
1:24 - Who is Ginny Morton? 
2:52 - Can non-technical PMs move into the tech space?
8:50 - Best way to manage projects with limited resources
13:30 - What certificates are needed for project management jobs?
18:52 - How do you kick off a cybersecurity project?
28:41 - How do you keep the project on schedule?
34:15 - Tips for networking in remote working situations
36:55 - Dealing with slowdowns and delays in projects
43:35 - Importance of a supportive environment in projects
47:40 - Dealing with delays from other teams in projects
50:35 - Tips for managing multiple projects at once
55:35 - How can teams support their project manager
56:35 - Transitioning into a cybersecurity career
59:00 - Outro and Infosec Skills giveaway

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

On today's episode, our old pal John Wagnon, Infosec Skills author and keeper of the secrets of OWASP, joins me to talk about the big changes in the OWASP Top 10 that happened at the end of 2021, his own class teaching the Top 10, and some job tips, study hints and career pivots for people interested in these vulnerabilities. Find out why access managers are going to rule the world someday!

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0:00 - Free cybersecurity training resources
0:56 - Overview of today's episode
1:43 - Who is John Wagnon? 
2:50 - Working in cybersecurity and teaching OWASP
4:18 - What is the OWASP Top 10?
7:51 - How did the OWASP Top 10 change in 2021?
15:48 - Why do these security issues never go away?
19:06 - Cybersecurity roles using the OWASP Top 10
23:43 - What's covered in John's OWASP Top 10 courses?
26:42 - How to get hands-on cybersecurity experience
30:24 - Vulnerability-related cybersecurity career paths
34:16 - What is John working on with Infosec and Fortinet?
35:37 - Using your career as a learning opportunity
37:16 - Learn more about John Wagnon and OWASP
38:30 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Today on the Cyber Work Podcast, Mark Kapczynski of OneRep reminds us of an awful truth most people either don’t know or don’t like to think about. Your personal information — your address, your phone number, your age — all of these things are on the public internet! Mark talks about OneRep’s mission to scrub personal information from these sites, suggests changes that could help prevent this problem, and shares ways you could base a career in this fight for data privacy and autonomy. All that and a detour into grade-school home computer shenanigans on today's episode.

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0:00 - Free cybersecurity training resources
0:56 - Overview of today's episode
1:50 - Who is Mark Kapczynski? 
2:44 - Data breaches are a way of life
3:36 - Getting started in IT and cybersecurity
5:41 - Helping the film industry go digital
7:31 - Transitioning industries from paper to digital
9:53 - What types of personal data are on the internet?
12:40 - How people search sites sell PII and make money
14:50 - How to get personal information removed from sites
18:07 - What type of services does OneRep offer?
19:19 - How is public personal data used in cybercrime?
23:01 - How can consumers limit personal data exposure?
26:38 - Regulatory changes needed to protect personal data
29:00 - Who owns your personal data?
30:55 - Web 3.0, smart contracts and other tech needed
33:58 - Jobs and careers related to data privacy
36:38 - Every professional needs to understand data
39:50 - What makes a data professional's resume stand out?
41:50 - What is OneRep?
44:30 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Today's episode is all about email fraud. John Wilson, head of the cyber intelligence division at Agari by HelpSystems, discusses Business Email Compromise (BEC), spearphishing, whaling, romance fraud and more. If you can name it, John’s studied it. And he's likely collected intel that’s managed to freeze cybercriminals’ assets — and even put them away. He gives career tips and advice for engaging in threat research at all levels, we discuss the pyrrhic victory that is the modern spam filter, and John tells me why BEC fraud hunters’ best asset is a degree in psychology! All that and loads more, today on Cyber Work!

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0:00 - Free cybersecurity training resources
0:58 - Overview of today's episode
1:58 - Who is John Wilson? 
3:02 - Getting into cybersecurity
4:58 - How spam has evolved over the years
8:12 - Why pursue a career in fraud?
11:10 - 3 primary vectors for email attacks
15:20 - Is BEC ever an insider threat?
16:16 - Is education making a difference on BEC attacks?
20:55 - Tracking down BEC actors and recovering assets
23:50 - Two angles to preventing BEC attacks
29:12 - Careers related to BEC and phishing prevention
34:42 - How to gain cybersecurity experience and get hired
37:25 - Agari and email fraud protection
42:16 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

On today's episode, we're breaking down phrases you've heard a million times: “security is everyone’s job,” “humans are the weakest link in the security chain,” “it’s not if you get breached, but when.” Returning guest Alyssa Miller drills into these comforting nostrums and explains why, even when they’re used for well-intended purposes, they often act to limit the conversation and the options, rather than address the hard work needed to overcome these evergreen problems. You’re not going to want to miss this one, folks! It’s all that, plus a little bit of book talk, today on Cyber Work!

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0:00 - Intro
1:38 - Alyssa's tweet that inspired this episode
4:00 - Why you need to read the Cybersecurity Career Guide
9:10 - Cybersecurity platitudes and clichés
11:30 - Cliché 1: "It's not if you get breached, but when"
18:44 - Cliché 2:"Just patch your shit"
24:58 - Cliché 3: "Users are the weakest link"
32:34 - Cliché 4: "Security is everyone's job"
35:52 - Cliché 5: What is a "quality gate"?
44:14 - Cliché 6: "You just need passion to get hired"
48:14 - How to write a better cybersecurity job description 
50:15 - Business value of diversity and inclusion
52:52 - Building a security champions program
55:12 - Where can you connect with Alyssa Miller?
56:44 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Secure coders are responsible for developing and writing secure code in a way that protects against security vulnerabilities like bugs, defects and logic flaws. They take proactive steps to introduce secure coding methodologies before the application or software is introduced into a production environment, often following recommendations from the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Foundation.

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0:00 - Intro
0:25 - What does a secure coder do?
5:48 - How do you become a secure coder?
9:46 - What skills do secure coders need?
12:28 - What tools do secure coders use?
17:08 - What roles can secure coders transition into?
19:50 - What to do right now to become a secure coder

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Diana Kelley returns to the show to discuss her work as a board member of the Cyber Future Foundation and the goings-on at this year’s Cyber Talent Week. Whether you’re a cybersecurity hiring manager who doesn’t know why you’re not getting the applicants you want, a candidate who hears the profession has 0% unemployment but still can’t seem to get a callback or anyone in between, DO. NOT. MISS. THIS. EPISODE. This is one for the books, folks.

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0:00 - Cybersecurity hiring and job searching
4:30 - Diana Kelley of Cyber Future Foundation
9:00 - Cyber Future Foundation talent week
13:58 - Reexamining cybersecurity job descriptions 
21:52 - Cybersecurity hiring manager and applicant training
27:10 - Strategies to bring in diverse talent from other industries
33:06 - Narrowing your cybersecurity job pursuit
39:37 - Using different educations in cybersecurity roles
41:32 - Implementing an educational pipeline
44:40 - Hiring based on strong skills from other trades
48:22 - Cybersecurity apprenticeships 
53:22 - Fostering cybersecurity community value 
59:09 - Diana Kelley's future projects
1:00:30 - Outro

Today on Cyber Work Ché Wijesinghe of Cape Privacy talks about the safe and ethical collection of user data when creating machine learning or predictive models. When your bank is weighing whether to give you a loan, they can make a better choice the more info they know about you. But how secure is that contextual data? Hint: not as secure as Wijesinghe would like!

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0:00 - Machine learning and data collection
2:37 - Getting started in cybersecurity
3:15 - Being drawn to big data
4:35 - What data is driving decision-making?
9:04 - How is data collection regulated?
15:02 - Closing the encryption gap
16:50 - Careers in data privacy
19:07 - Where can you move from data privacy?
21:20 - Ethics of data collection 
23:25 - Learn more about Wijesinghe 
23:55 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

A Privacy Manager is responsible for the development, creation, maintenance and enforcement of the privacy policies and procedures of an organization. They ensure compliance with all privacy-related laws and regulations. The Privacy Manager takes an active lead role when a privacy incident or data breach occurs and will start the investigation. They will then monitor, track and resolve any privacy issues. The Privacy Manager builds a strategic and comprehensive privacy program for their organization that minimizes risk and ensures the confidentiality of protected information.

Advanced knowledge of privacy law and data protection is critical to success in this role.

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0:00 - Working as a privacy manager
0:40 - What does a privacy manager do? 
3:02 - Experience a privacy manager needs
5:15 - Is college necessary for a privacy manager?
8:05 - Skills needed to be a privacy manager
10:30 - What tools does a privacy manager use?
11:15 - Where do privacy managers work? 
12:15 - Roles privacy managers can move to
13:30 - How do I get started becoming a privacy manager?

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Just getting started?  This role is for you!

The Cybersecurity Beginner role focuses on the foundational skills and knowledge that will allow anyone to take the first step towards transitioning into a cybersecurity career.  No prior knowledge of cybersecurity or work experience is required. The only prerequisite is a passion for technology and cybersecurity.

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0:00 - Working as a cybersecurity beginner
0:41 - Tasks a cybersecurity beginner may take on
4:15 - Cybersecurity work imposter syndrome
5:49 - Common tools cybersecurity beginners use
9:08 - Jobs for cybersecurity beginners
13:50 - Get started in cybersecurity 

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Industrial control system (ICS) security practitioners are responsible for securing mission-critical SCADA and ICS information systems. They are responsible for restricting digital and physical access to ICS devices, such as PLCs and RTUs, to maximize system uptime and availability. Extensive knowledge of OT and IT protocols, incident response, Linux and Windows OS, configuration management, air-gapped or closed networks, insider threats and physical security controls are important competencies for any ICS security practitioner.

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O:00 - ICS security practitioners 
0:25 - What is an industrial control system practitioner?
2:22 - How to become an ICS practitioner 
4:00 - Education required for an ICS practitioner 
5:00 - Soft skills ICS practitioners need
6:05 - Common tools ICS practitioners use 
7:59 - Where do ICS practitioners work? 
10:05 - Can I move to another role after ICS practitioner? 
12:18 - Getting started as an ICS practitioner 

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Join Infosec Skills authors Chris Stevens, John Bandler and Ralph O’Brien as they discuss the intersection of privacy and cybersecurity. They’ll help you walk a path that will lead to an engaging career as a privacy specialist — a job role that grows with more opportunities year after year!

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0:00 - Intro and guests
3:45 - What is privacy as a career? 
8:15 - Day-to-day work of a cybersecurity privacy professional?
16:45 - Intersection of law and tech degrees
20:30 - What beginner privacy certifications should I pursue? 
25:45 - Best practices for studying for IAPP certifications
33:00 - How to gain experience in cybersecurity privacy work
40:27 - How to interview for a cybersecurity privacy job
45:00 - GDPR and ransomware 
51:52 - Implementation of privacy laws and security positions 
58:15 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Security engineers are responsible for implementing, and continuously monitoring security controls that protect computer assets, networks and organizational data. They often design security architecture and develop technical solutions to mitigate and automate security-related tasks. Technical knowledge of network/web protocols, infrastructure, authentication, log management and multiple operating systems and databases is critical to success in this role.

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0:00 - What is a security engineer? 
3:39 - How do I become a security engineer? 
4:52 - Studying to become a security engineer
5:47 - Soft skills for security engineers
7:05 - Where do security engineers work? 
9:43 - Tools for security engineers
12:10 - Roles adjacent to security engineer 
13:15 - Become a security engineer right now

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Information risk analysts conduct objective, fact-based risk assessments on existing and new systems and technologies, and communicate findings to all stakeholders within the information system. They also identify opportunities to improve the risk posture of the organization and continuously monitor risk tolerance.

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0:00 - Information risk analyst career
0:30 - Day-to-day tasks of an information risk analyst
2:09 - How to become an information risk analyst
4:00 - Training for an information risk analyst role
5:42 - Skills an information risk analyst needs
9:24 - Tools information risk analysts use
10:51 - Jobs for information risk analysts 
13:08 - Other jobs information risk analysts can do
18:05 - First steps to becoming an information risk analyst

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Moshe Zioni of Apiiro talks about threat research and how to properly report discovered code vulnerabilities. We discuss the ways that vulnerabilities can find their way into code despite your best intentions, the difference between full disclosure and responsible disclosure, and being in the last generation to still grow up before the internet changed everything.

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0:00 - Cybersecurity threat research 
2:21 - Getting interested in computers
3:25 - Penetration testing and threat research 
6:15 - Code vulnerabilities 
10:58 - Research process for vulnerabilities 
17:05 - Proper reporting of threats
23:11 - Full disclosure vs proper disclosure
25:53 - Current security threats
30:20 - Day-to-day work of security researchers 
32:02 - Tips for working in pentesting 
35:32 - What is Apiiro?
39:11 - Learn more about Moshe Zioni 
39:42 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

TEDx speaker, security researcher, host of the podcast MiC Club and all-around expert on security awareness and social engineering, Dr. Erik Huffman, is today's guest. Huffman spoke at the 2021 Infosec Inspire virtual conference, and for those of you who were captivated by his presentation, prepare for another hour of Dr. Huffman’s insights on why we need to teach security awareness from insight, rather than fear or punishment, how positive name recognition in an email can short-circuit our common sense and how to keep your extrovert family members from answering those questions online about your first pet and the street you lived on as a child.

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0:00 - Clicking on phishing attacks
3:13 - First getting into cybersecurity
5:00 - Higher education and cybersecurity 
7:41 - Cybersecurity research projects
10:05 - Impacting a cybersecurity breach 
11:14 - Security awareness and social engineering
15:45 - Common social engineering tricks 
23:00 - Changing security habits
30:15 - Cybersecurity communication avenues
33:30 - Getting family members cyber safe
38:00 - Harvesting info via social media
42:13 - Working in security awareness and threat research
44:54 - Importance of white papers and documentation 
55:04 - Learn more about Erik Huffman
56:00 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Marcus Fowler, senior vice president of strategic engagement and threats at DarkTrace, talks about attack vectors currently facing embedded journalists, their need to be available at all times for potential sources and how that openness makes them, their company and their confidential sources potential attack vectors for cybercriminals. Fowler talks about security hardening strategies that don’t compromise journalistic availability, the work of threat research and why people with natural interests in cybersecurity will have their career path choose them, not the other way around.

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0:00 - Cybersecurity threats to journalists 
3:00 - Getting into cybersecurity 
5:50 - CIA cybersecurity training
7:18 - Joining DarkTrace in engagement threat roles
10:22 - Tasks with engagement threat jobs
13:22 - Cybersecurity work balance
17:49 - Advanced persistent threats against media
23:33 - Attack vectors journalists face
26:14 - Journalist cybersecurity savvy 
28:08 - A truly secure journalism source 
32:58 - Damage from a compromised source
36:05 - Main cybersecurity threats right now
38:37 - Qualifications needed to work as a threat researcher
42:52 - Safe cybersecurity jobs 
47:05 - What is DarkTrace?
49:06 - Learn more about Marcus Fowler
50:11 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Justin Pelletier is the director of the cyber range program at the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Infosec Skills has some great cyber ranges, but Pelletier shows the organization’s massive, immersive simulations. Because they’ve also included cyber range technology for beginning cybersecurity pros transitioning from other jobs, we cover what’s involved in making a good cyber range, how to break down those early barriers of fear and self-doubt and how quickly you can move into a cyber career after hands-on training.

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0:00 - Immersive cyber ranges
3:13 - Getting into cybersecurity
5:06 - Studying data breaches
11:03 - Cybersecurity at the Department of Defense
14:02 - Cyber range education at the RIT
16:20 - Work of the Global Cyber Range
24:20 - Cyber range scenarios 
38:30 - What makes a good cyber range? 
42:00 - Successfully getting into cybersecurity
45:33 - Cyber range upskilling 
48:47 - Cybersecurity hiring changes
51:30 - Learn more about the cyber range center
52:30 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Today's podcast highlights implementation privacy, policy privacy and all things privacy with privacy expert and Infosec Skills author and instructor Chris Stevens. From his years in the government’s office of national intelligence to his multiple IAPP certifications, Stevens is happy to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about careers in privacy, around privacy and careers that would be better with a helping of privacy skills on top!

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0:00 - Cybersecurity privacy 
3:30 - Getting interested in cybersecurity
4:40 - Cybersecurity in the Department of Defense
6:00 - Computer science studies 
8:50 - Cybersecurity research
11:05 - Information privacy and privacy professionals
14:48 - What does U.S. privacy cover?
19:10 - Privacy certifications and more
21:36 - Privacy differences across countries
24:50 - Difference in privacy certifications
27:16 - Learning about privacy
30:16 - Positions available for information privacy 
33:50 - Educational steps to work in privacy
36:00 - Getting a job in privacy
37:57 - Entry-level work in privacy roles
42:44 - How to stay on track in lifelong learning
46:37 - Cybersecurity education in the future
48:19 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Steve Pereira of Visible Value Stream Consulting discusses DevOps, SecOps, DevSecOps and his own lifelong love of streamlining projects. You’ll hear how his dad’s job with Bell Telephone facilitated his early explorations, the intersections of DevOps and Agile, the ever-important security component of it all and why following your interests and not the big money payouts might not work in the short run, but ultimately will get you where you want to go in the end.

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0:00 - Intro 
2:35 - Cybersecurity origin story
6:02 - Build and release engineering
9:27 - Tech and business
11:20 - DevOps projects
12:10 - Automating yourself out of your job
13:44 - What is DevOps?
23:45 - Method for DevOps success
31:47 - Development team vs security team
36:03 - DevOps history and Agile
44:50 - How do I work in DevOps?  
52:09 - Visible Value Stream Consulting 
54:42 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Digital forensics analysts collect, analyze and interpret digital evidence to reconstruct potential criminal events and/or aid in preventing unauthorized actions from threat actors. They help recover data like documents, photos and emails from computer or mobile device hard drives and other data storage devices, such as zip folders and flash drives, that have been deleted, damaged or otherwise manipulated. Digital forensic analysts carefully follow chain of custody rules for digital evidence and provide evidence in acceptable formats for legal proceedings.

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0:00 - Intro 
0:26 - What is a digital forensics analyst? 
0:57 - Digital forensics specialties
1:24 - How to become a digital forensics analyst
2:17 - Skills needed to be a digital forensics analyst 
3:34 - Common tools for a digital forensics analyst 
4:42 - Using digital forensics tools 
5:17 - Digital forensics analyst jobs
6:30 - Moving from digital forensics to new roles
7:17 - Get started in digital forensics
8:18 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Infosec Skills author Mike Meyers of Total Seminars joins me to discuss three foundational certifications that will start you on just about any path you want to go. Specifically, the CompTIA A+, Network+ and Security+ certifications. Meyers dispenses tough love for people who want someone else to map their career for them, talks up the benefits of vendor-neutral certs and blows my mind by comparing certs with car windshield wipers. Intrigued? You should be! That’s all today, on Cyber Work!

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0:00 - Intro 
3:00 - Beginning in cybersecurity 
3:23 - Why teach cybersecurity? 
5:54 - Why CompTIA?
6:57 - Start vendor neutral with cybersecurity certification 
12:10 - Being diverse in cybersecurity is essential 
13:35 - Why A+, Network+ and Security+?
25:53 - Guiding your cybersecurity career
30:05 - Where to learn cybersecurity skills
42:02 - Cybersecurity job dilution 
44:20 -  Where do I begin my cybersecurity career?
48:32 - Using the Infosec Skills platform
49:38 - Mike Meyers' next projects
51:30 - What is Total Seminars?
52:12 - Learn more about Meyers and Total Seminars
53:23 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Security Architects are responsible for planning, designing, testing, implementing and maintaining an organization's computer and network security infrastructure. Security Architects develop information technology rules and requirements that describe baseline and target architectures and support enterprise mission needs.

Advanced technical knowledge of network/web protocols, infrastructure, authentication, enterprise risk management, security engineering, communications and network security, identity and access management, and incident response, is critical to success in this role.

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0:00 - Intro 
0:31 - What is a security architect? 
1:07 - How to become a security architect
2:15 - What certifications should a security architect get? 
3:07 - Skills a security architect needs
4:07 - Learning as a security architect
7:06 - Security architect tools
7:58 - Where do security architects work 
9:28 - Private vs federal security architects
11:09 - Related roles to security architect
12:12 - Start working toward security architect
13:23 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Curtis Preston, aka “Mr. Backup,” has been in the backup and recovery space since 1993. He’s written four books, hosts a podcast called “Restore it all,” founded backupcentral.com and is a tech evangelist for SaaS data protection company Druva. We talk about disaster recovery, the role of good backup in ransomware situations and why the data recovery person and the information security person in your company need to become fast friends and start sharing notes. Also, why we’ve all been completely wrong about tape backup systems.

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0:00 - Cyber Work intro 
2:40 - Mr. Backup origin story
4:01 - How backup and recovery has changed
7:44 - Data duplication during a disaster
9:45 - Speed of data recovery changes
12:47 - Benefit to physical data backups
15:37 - Common long-term data backup mistakes
19:04 - Other issues with data recovery
23:22 - Limits of disaster recovery
34:16 - Encryption options 
39:44 - Jobs in data backup and recovery
44:54 - Benefit to learning data backup and recovery
46:53 - Data backup and recovery outlook
52:52 - What is the Restore It All podcast?
56:15 - What is Druva? 
59:45 - Where can I learn more about Mr. Backup? 
1:00:32 - Cyber Work outro 

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Maxime Lamothe-Brassard, founder of LimaCharlie, has worked for Crowdstrike, Google X and Chronicle Security before starting his own company. This episode goes deep into thinking about your long-term career strategies, so don’t miss this one if you’re thinking about where you want to go in cybersecurity in two, five or even 10 years from now.

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0:00 - Intro 
2:56 - First getting into cybersecurity 
6:46 - Working in Canada's national defense
9:33 - Learning on the job
10:39 - Security practices in government versus private sector
13:50 - Average day at LimaCharlie
16:40 - Career journey
19:25 - Skills picked up at each position 
23:57 - How is time length changing? 
27:53 - Security tools and how they could be
31:34 - Where do security tool kits fail? 
34:04 - Current state of practice and study
37:10 - Advice for cybersecurity students in 2022
38:21 - More about LimaCharlie
39:50 - Learn more about LImaCharlie or Maxime
40:08 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Jessica Amado, head of cyber research at Sepio Systems, discusses hardware-based cybersecurity threats. We’ve all heard the USB in the parking lot trick, but Amado tells us about the increasingly complex ways cybercriminals bypass hardware safeguards, and lets you know how to make sure that the keyboard or mouse you’re plugging in isn’t carrying a dangerous passenger.

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0:00 - Intro 
2:30 - Initial cybersecurity draw
6:30 - Day-to-day work as head of cybersecurity research
8:44 - How Amado does research
9:37 - Amado's routine 
10:35 - Hardware-based ransomware
13:00 - Other hardware threat factors
17:54 - Security practices with USBs
20:10 - How to check hardware
21:52 - Recommendations on security protocols
23:57 - The future of ransomware and malware
27:20 - How to work in hardware security 
31:35 - Cybersecurity in other industries
32:33 - Advice for cybersecurity students 
34:11 - Sepio Systems 
35:58 - Learn more about Sepio or Amado
36:23 - Outro 

About Infosec
Infosec believes knowledge is power when fighting cybercrime. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and privacy training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. It’s our mission to equip all organizations and individuals with the know-how and confidence to outsmart cybercrime. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.