Cyber Work

Cyber Work Hacks is here to answer your questions about the CompTIA Security+ exam! Today, Infosec boot camp instructor Tommy Gober reviews Security+ exam sample questions and shares tips to pass your Security+ 701 exam. 0:00 - Security+ exam mechanics 1:15 - The different types of Security+ exam questions 3:55 - How do you see your Security+ exam results? 5:10 - Security+ exam example question 1...

Ken Westin of Panther Labs has a bit of fact-checking he wants to do on some of the tech stories we read daily in the papers. Does J.P. Morgan really get 45 billion cyberattacks per day? Really? Are there other factors in this number that aren’t emphasized in the interest of chasing panic clicks? Westin and I talk about responsible ways to cover big security stories in the news, ways that each of...

Cyber Work Hacks is here to answer your questions about the CompTIA Security+ exam! Today, Infosec boot camp instructor Tommy Gober tells us about the new changes to the Security+ exam and how it will (or will not) affect your study and preparation for the exam! Keep learning, and keep it here for another Cyber Work Hack. Get your free Security+ ebook, "CompTIA Security+ 701: How the world&ap...

Today on Cyber Work, Sean Falconer of Skyflow and host of the Partially Redacted and Software Huddle podcasts, joins me to talk about the present and future of consumer and user data privacy, the pros and cons of adding more privacy regulations into place and his journey from software development and engineering to his current place of working closely and deeply with the future of API-based data e...

Adrianna Iadarola of CyberSN joins me today to break down every spot on the cybersecurity job search, hiring, upskilling and retention pipeline. After her raucous and highly informative presentation at ISACA Digital Trust World, I knew I had to introduce you to this great analyst and thinker. Whether you’re doing the hiring or being the hiree, you will find something crucial to your new year journ...

Today's guest is Anthony Pacilio, VP Neurodiverse Solutions at CAI. I met Pacilio at this year’s ISACA Digital Trust World event in Boston, and I was immediately fascinated with his insights on hiring and attracting neurodiverse professionals in security, IT, engineering and related industries, all of which suffer a skills gap and all of which are in need of new insights and working methods....

Dan Roberts, host of the “Tech Whisperers” podcast, and a mentor, coach and leader to CISOs and other tech-focused C-suite members for nearly four decades, is today's guest. We talk about Roberts' earliest work, including coining the term “Developing the human side of technology” all the way back in 1984, to spearheading the CyberLX program for CISOs and those aspiring to be. Roberts als...

Confidence Staveley of the CyberSafe Foundation and the CyberGirls program is today's guest. CyberGirls is a year-long cohort program in which women in Africa ages 18 to 28 can learn cybersecurity basics and create career tracks to fast-track these students into cybersecurity careers! Staveley tells us about the workings of the program, how she uses her YouTube channel to teach API security w...

Ian Campbell, security operations engineer at DomainTools, is someone who has truly carved a niche out for himself in his organization and in the cybersecurity landscape as a whole. His blogs for the DomainTools website have provided paths for neurodiverse cybersecurity professionals and allies who want to make their organizations more friendly to neurodiversity to undertake the small changes to w...

Guest AJ Grotto is the William J. Perry International Security Fellow and founding director of the Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Governance at the Stanford Policy Center and Stanford University. Grotto has served in the National Cybersecurity Council under two successive presidents and brings decades of knowledge in international relations, policy and risk both to his students and to clie...

Infosec IQ’s director of production, Steve Concotelli comes to us following years working in the movie and TV industry, and his ability to create and craft a great story is at the core of what makes Work Bytes the most award-winning security awareness series on the market! Learn more about Concotelli and the team’s ability to craft storylines with takeaways that stick, as well as the reasons why w...

Tomas Smalakys, CTO at NordPass, is today's guest. As our future seems choked with a never-ending need for new passwords of ever-growing complexity for everything we sign up for, Smalakys, along with some large tech organizations, is embracing a post-password future with a system of passkeys. What will it look like? How is it implemented? How will you be able to do this bleeding-edge work in...

Anna Claiborne from Zayo talks about the spike of DDoS attacks they saw in the past year. Although distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks trend up nearly every year, new factors around advanced automation and ease of use may be driving the increase. Claiborne takes us back 20 years, when solutions to DDoS attacks involved trying the most far-out solution you could, often for the most far-out...

Oliver Tavakoli from VectraAI returns to the program to talk about – surprise! – AI! Having talked about Tavakoli's origin story on the past episode, we’re free to dig right into his main area of interest: the ways in which generative AI can be used by bad actors, whether introducing conflicting messages into GPT guardrail commands or escalating the nuance and complexity of fake-based social...

Dr. Heather Buker of 6clicks has been a technical SME in the cybersecurity field her entire career, and 6clicks has introduced Ask Hailey, an AI-based governance risk and compliance (GRC) tool that promises to move the work of GRC into a new era. Also on the show, Infosec’s vice president of portfolio product strategy and cybersecurity superstar Keatron Evans in a guest-host capacity! Buker, Keatr...

Tara D. Anderson, managing director of Framework Security and an official member of the Forbes Technology Council, walks us through her journey, including her years in the world of finance, opens up about a traumatic event in her life that altered the way she learns and retains information and how her switch to IT and Cybersecurity was an ideal fit. From her days co-founding the consultancy firm C...

Leslie Lynn Smith is the National Executive Director for GET Cities. GET stands for Gender Equality in Tech. Today’s episode will move away from standard cybersecurity and IT insights in favor of a larger look at investment opportunities for tech startups, and where and on who we spend investment capital. Smith is a multi-decade authority on state- and city-wide community investment initiatives wi...

Brianne Caplan is the founder and executive director of Code Your Dreams, a non-profit that brings knowledge, accessibility and excitement about programming and tech to learners from age 5 to adulthood in underserved communities. Caplan tells some incredible stories, like the women’s coding and data analysis group in Burundi, exciting coding projects for students interested in art, music and dance...

Limor Bergman-Gross, founder of LBG Consulting, a results-oriented executive coaching service for women in tech, discusses her early programming experience, including Pascal instruction in high school, her move from software engineering manager to career coach and corporate mentorship instructor and why mentors can and should come at any level on the career ladder, not just management or executive...

Lesley Carhart of Dragos, also known as Hack4Pancakes on social media, is a lifelong breaker and builder of things, and their insights on the deep mechanics of Industrial Control Systems are an absolute must-hear for any of you even considering this space. Carhart also talks about their keynote at this year’s Blue Team Con, the differences between incident response in the military vs. the private...

Forget what the crime scene TV shows have told you — digital forensics is not done on an overhead projector while the whole department watches! Learn about the day-to-day work of a digital forensics professional from a team of experts who have been putting in the work for decades! In this episode of Cyber Work Live, you will learn: - The types of tools you’ll use to help bring criminals to justice...

We met Katie O’Malley, founder of (en)Courage Coaching and Counseling, at this year’s Women Impact Tech conference, and she gave a great talk about effective networking and giving confidence to tech professionals at all levels of the career ladder. Katie and I discussed finding your adjectives and using them to center your interactions, creating courageous workplace culture, and why women only bei...

We're talking about chief information security officers CISOs, one of the top-dog roles in cybersecurity, and for many professionals, it’s the brass ring they spend their careers trying to reach. The expectations of a CISO are changing, too, and requirements are growing in many different ways. Mike Scott, CISO of data security provider Immuta, has seen the role change a lot in the past 15 yea...

Preparing for the worst is a drag. Nobody likes to think about it, and if you don’t watch out, inaction means that when you do get ransomed or breached, your first thought is not “let’s get the disaster manual and see what it says.” It’s panic. Today, ProServeIT’s Eric Sugar walks you through a crash course in developing a disaster recovery plan for your small business! Don’t panic! Help is on the...

Leigh Honeywell, CEO and founder of Tall Poppy, a security company that is building tools and services to help companies protect their employees from online harassment and abuse, talks about her career running security incident response at Slack, protecting infrastructure running a million apps at Salesforce.com, shipping patches for billions of computers on the Patch Tuesday team at Microsoft and...