A, this is con course's podcast. And, um, this is unscripted straight off the top of my head. , uh, probably, um, an ill advised way to do this, but this is how I do it. And, um, let's get this started. I'm gonna answer some questions and I'm keeping it live. So if you actually are talking to me now, you'll, you'll be, you'll have appeared on this podcast.

That's gonna survive forever. So let's do this. I got a few questions. First of all, from believe these came from my, um, from my comical YouTube comic courses site, but I'll ask, I'll answer some ones that came from email and everywhere else. And if you happen to be live and ask questions, I'll, I'll do my very best to answer those questions, but let's start with, um, let's start with, what is it like?

To be in it daily. I think I got this one. I got this one a few times actually, but I wanna say I got this particular one from, um, email, somebody emailed this question to me. What is it like to do it day to day? So, um, cyber security day to day. So it really depends on your job. Cyber security is a very big field.

It it's a huge field. Like you have all these different categories of CRI of, uh, cyber security. You've got people who are in cryptography, you know, mathematicians, people who are professional hackers, people who are, do pin testing, people who do assessments, cyber security assessments. You've got people to do information system security, officer work, compliance governance, people who actually are just firewall.

Administrators. You got. IP, uh, IPS, administrators, IDs, administrators, cyber security, and you get the idea there's many different categories. So when you say cyber security, what's your daily life. Like, it really depends on what job you're doing, but I can tell you about a few of them that I've done in my career.

Um, so I've done, um, I did, uh, network engineering for a while. I can tell you what that's like day to day. And I can tell you, I can tell you information system security officer work, man. I did that for a really long time. I can tell you what that's like, and I can tell you what a cyber security analyst does.

So let's start with the one I know the best, which is information system, security officer. What is that like to do every day? What's the daily life of that for, for every single situation. It depends on the organization and, um, you have a large. Medium and small organizations and what I've, I've worked in all of those and the, the amount of work that they get.

The, it really depends on how much work they're getting at that time too, is what's gonna affect your, those are all factors that are gonna affect your daily routine and how much workflow you have. Um, the biggest things that affect your daily routine is gonna be if they have processes that are in place, the best organizations are the ones who have very clearly defined processes.

And they're able to figure out how much work goes to each person. Those are the best because they allow you to actually manage your time. In the day. The worst ones are the ones who don't know what they don't have a clearly defined process.  um, policy or procedure, and it's just chaos. They're just kind of throwing things against the wall.

See what sticks, they're the worst. It's the worst because you they'll, they can have you doing work and then you, you deliver something and they're like, this is what we wanted, you know? And that's very frustrating, psychologically frustrating. Anyway, you wanna know what you do on a day to day basis for information security officer work.

So an information system, security officer is gonna be a person who is coordinating with a lot of different, uh, stakeholders. Stakeholders are people who have an interest in the information system, security assets and the assets of the information systems. The important information that they, if you think of a bank.

So in a bank, they have servers, uh, and they have their, all of their clients' data. The da