Cyber Work

Get your FREE 2024 Cybersecurity Salary Guide: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/form/cybersecurity-salary-guide-podcast/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast Today on Cyber Work, Anneka Gupta from Rubrik joins us to discuss STEM education, transitioning into cybersecurity and strategies for effective and diverse hiring. Gupta delves into her role as Chief Product Offi...

Get your FREE 2024 Cybersecurity Salary Guide: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/form/cybersecurity-salary-guide-podcast/?utm_source=audio&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast Today on Cyber Work, Jonathan Braley from the Food and Agriculture Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Food and Ag ISAC) delves into the critical security challenges in the food, farming and production sectors...

Get your FREE 2024 Cybersecurity Salary Guide: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/form/cybersecurity-salary-guide-podcast/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast Join us on this episode of Cyber Work with Katie Paxton-Fear, an API hacker and technical marketing manager at Traceable, known for her YouTube channel InsiderPhD. Dive into API security, common defense mistakes...

Get your FREE 2024 Cybersecurity Salary Guide: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/form/cybersecurity-salary-guide-podcast/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=audio&utm_campaign=podcast Paige Hanson from SecureLabs discusses identity theft management and her extensive experience as a security communicator. With nearly 20 years in consumer and digital safety, Paige shares insights on pursuing a cyb...

Get your FREE 2024 Cybersecurity Salary Guide: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/form/cybersecurity-salary-guide-podcast/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast Today on CyberWork, Dr. Shayla Treadwell, vice president of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) at ECS, discusses the role of AI in the GRC space. She breaks down AI applications for GRC, the importance of AI...

Get your FREE 2024 Cybersecurity Salary Guide: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/form/cybersecurity-salary-guide-podcast/?utm_source=audio&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=podcast Alex Sharpe, a cybersecurity expert with over 30 years of experience, joins the Cyber Work Podcast to discuss the realistic promises and limitations of AI and machine learning in cybersecurity — and pragmatic advic...

Get your FREE 2024 Cybersecurity Salary Guide: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/form/cybersecurity-salary-guide-podcast/ In this episode of Cyber Work Podcast, Tia Hopkins, Chief Cybersecurity Resilience Officer at eSentire, returns to discuss her journey into tech and cybersecurity. She reflects on her early fascination with technology her impactful externship experiences, and the importance of c...

Today on Cyber Work Hacks, my guest, Infosec Skills author Cicero Chimbanda, gives us another Hack for our Cybersecurity Managers. If you want to know more about Cicero’s Security Manager learning path for Infosec Skills, this is the episode for you, as we break down everything you’ll learn and how to apply it to your career! 0:00 - Infosec's security manager soft skills course 2:39 - Infosec...

Today, on Cyber Work Hacks, my guest, Infosec Skills author Cicero Chimbanda, gave us a Hack involving the role of Cybersecurity Manager. Studying security management techniques academically is one thing, but how do you develop your security manager skills ON THE JOB? Cicero has many insights, and we talk a bit about the importance of rapport and understanding between different generations of secu...

Infosec Skills author Cicero Chimbanda discusses the role of the cybersecurity manager. Our focus is the one thing Chimbanda wishes he had known before he became one! I’ll leave it at that and let him tell his story because it’s a good one. 0:00 - What to know as a cybersecurity manager 3:26 - One thing to know about being a security manager 7:00 - Craft your cybersecurity manager role 9:09 - Cybe...

Today on Cyber Work Hacks, my guest is Infosec Skills author and teacher Cicero Chimbanda. Chimbanda's Skills path concerns building the soft skills needed to succeed as a Cybersecurity Manager. For today’s Hack, Chimbanda tells us his best tip for Security Managers to keep their security teams fulfilled and connected. As we speak, many companies are entering their Q2, and Chimbanda has great...

We’ve all been there — 200 pages into your Security+ study guide reading, and your eyes are crossing from exhaustion. Does any of this even connect with the real world? One of the best ways to apply your learning is to try it out for yourself, and my guest today, Infosec Skills author professor Robert McMillen, has a host of suggestions for low-cost, low-danger security tasks that you can try for...

Get a job! No, seriously, get a job. Cyber Work Hacks wants to help you find the job of your dreams, and your guide to learning how to search for Cybersecurity jobs is Professor Robert McMillen, one of Infosec’s Skills authors. McMillen knows that there’s a disconnect between the skills gap that guests espouse and the commenters who are still looking. But McMillen has some actionable advice for yo...

Cyber Work Hacks is dedicated to furthering and strengthening your cybersecurity education and learning, but today’s episode is specifically focused on learning. Professor Robert McMillen guides you through all of the different ways you can learn, both in certification training and education options, and helps you understand which learning method is going to mesh with you and also which ones will...

Join us for the June 2024 edition of Cyber Work Live! This episode is dedicated to answering questions about cybersecurity certifications, training, and careers. Our expert panel, including Confidence Stavely, Akyl Phillips, and Robert McMillen, share invaluable insights for newcomers and career changers in cybersecurity. Topics covered include navigating the certification landscape, overcoming im...

Today’s Cyber Work Hacks is for security novices, people just getting started in learning cybersecurity and looking for their career path. Professor Robert McMillen is an Infosec Skills path author, and he gives you some fantastic advice for making the decisions at the very beginning to help you steer your career to all the places you want to go! To get your cybersecurity career started, make sure...

Today on Cyber Work, Jonathan Gill, CEO of Panaseer, joins me to talk about the stress-filled role of the Chief Information Security Officer. Jonathan notes that the most challenging part of a CISO’s role, especially the CISO of a large, complex company, is the lack of full view of the organization’s assets and points of vulnerability. Jonathan tells us how Panaseer is working to create a trusted...

Today on Cyber Work, I’m introducing you to Dr. Georgianna, or “George” Shea, the chief technologist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation. Shea finds new and developing technologies and develops pilot programs for implementation in a variety of locales, including DoD, the government sector and critical infrastructure. We talk about Shea's fir...

Infosec and Cyber Work Hacks are helping train the red teamers and blue teamers of tomorrow with our boot camps and study materials for the CEH exam. But how does ethical hacking proficiency translate into a satisfying career? Infosec’s CEH boot camp instructor Akyl Phillips has plenty of strategies to help you get focused and stay focused on your studies, some excellent tips for keeping on top of...

Today on Cyber Work, I talked with Etay Maor, Chief Security Strategist with Cato Networks. Etay is a founding member of the Cato Cyber Threats Research Lab, or CTRL — see what they did there? — and he joins me to talk about their first CTRL report on attack patterns and methods. We’re going to talk about the most common attack vectors, why Log4J still rules the roost even against newer and flashi...

How does a childhood curiosity turn into a groundbreaking career in identity and access management? Join us for an engaging conversation with David Lee, the Identity Jedi, as he recounts his fascinating journey from tinkering with computers as a child to becoming a sought-after expert in IAM. Lee shares the pivotal moments and unexpected opportunities that transformed his career, providing invalua...

Today on Cyber Work, Tom Siu, CISO of Inversion6, joins the podcast to talk about cyber diplomacy! As Siu says at the start of the show, the internet has no borders. It’s like water. There are pathways and choke points, but there is no ownership by any one country or entity. How does that influence international diplomacy? Siu discusses possible scenarios for the future of cyber diplomacy, and ski...

Infosec and Cyber Work Hacks are here to help you pass the CEH, or Certified Ethical Hacker exam. For today’s Hack, Akyl Phillips, Infosec bootcamp instructor in charge of the CEH/Pentest+ dual-cert bootcamp, walks us through four sample CEH questions, explaining the logic behind each answer and discounting the wrong ones with explanations, allowing you to reach the right answer in a logical and s...

Zarik Megerdichian, the co-founder of personal privacy controller company Loop8, joins me in breaking down the recent Roku breach, which landed hackers a whopping 15,000 users' worth of vital data. Megerdichian and I discuss the failings of the current data collection and storage model while moving to a model in which biometrics is the primary identification method, coupled with a system of c...

Today on Cyber Work, I’m very excited to welcome Debbie Reynolds, the Data Diva herself, to discuss data privacy. Reynolds developed a love of learning about data privacy since working in library science, and she took it through to legal technologies. She now runs her own data privacy consultancy and hosts the long-running podcast “The Data Diva Talks Privacy Podcast.” We talk about data privacy i...