Cyber Work

ProServeIT President Eric Sugar discusses disaster recovery planning for small and medium businesses. This is an excellent add-on episode to our third episode from way back in 2018 when Keatron Evans discussed the work of an incident responder. If your small- or medium-sized company suffers an incident, whether a breach or a ransom or just a power failure, the first thing you’re going to hope is that you have a disaster recovery plan already written and sitting in the CEO’s locked desk drawer. If not, it’s time for you to prepare and breathe easier.

0:00 - Disaster recovery planning for small businesses
3:12 - Eric Sugar’s start in cybersecurity
4:40 - Working at ProServeIT
6:40 - Working as president of ProServeIT
9:07 - What is a small or medium cybersecurity business?
10:50 - How to have a disaster recovery plan
14:05 - Customize your disaster recovery plan
16:40 - Prioritized your disaster recovery plan
18:10 - How to choose potential disasters
21:28 - Examples of disaster recovery plans
26:20 - Education and skills needed to work in disaster recovery
31:40 - A good resume for disaster recovery
35:10 - Getting promoted in discovery recovery 
37:33 - What is ProServeIT?
41:16 - Learn more about Eric Sugar and ProServeIT
41:34 - Outro

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About Infosec
Infosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Huxley Barbee, security evangelist at runZero, talks about the nuts and bolts of asset detection on a large scale, specifically around the U.S. federal government’s current directive. Here, we will shrink the playing field and tell newcomers to security how to do your home asset detection!

0:00 - Asset detection at home
1:18 - What is asset detection?
2:44 - Is asset detection difficult?
3:39 - Do asset detection on your network
4:45 - Asset detection on a school network
6:50 - How to put asset detection on your resume
9:44 - What to study for asset detection roles
10:31 - Learn more about runZero
11:15 - Outro

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About Infosec
Infosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Tech evangelist Huxley Barbee from runZero talks about asset detection, and yes, just asset detection. Learn about the day-to-day work of asset detection and asset mapping. Go beyond the theory and speculation about whether the U.S. federal government will implement it on time, and join Barbee as he walks you through how it’s all done and what you need in order to do it well.

0:00 - Asset detection and asset mapping
2:56 - Getting into cybersecurity
4:12 - Shifting roles in cybersecurity to evangelist
6:02 - What does a security evangelist do?
8:30 - What is BSides NYC?
14:41 - Planning in cybersecurity assets
22:50 - Tools and techniques of asset inventory
32:13 - The importance of asset discovery
34:25 - Skills needed to work in asset detection
37:32 - Cybersecurity starts and ends with assets
42:22 - What does runZero do?
44:44 - Outro

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About Infosec
Infosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

CAT Labs CEO and founder Lili Infante worked as a special agent for the U.S. Department of Justice for 10 years specializing in cryptocurrency’s use in dark web investigations. Infante gives us the insider’s view of dark web investigations, why it’s so difficult to prosecute dark web actors when anonymity extends up and down the hierarchy, the current state of dark web markets, and the rise of state-sponsored crypto crime organizations like North Korea’s Lazarus Group. Plus, Infante gives you expert advice on getting started in crypto crime investigation and forensics research! You don’t need a Tor browser for this info.

0:00 - Crypto crime in 2023
2:46 - How Lili Infante began in cybersecurity
4:50 - Economics, bitcoin and crypto
9:20 - Liberal arts education and cybersecurity
14:05 - Taking on dark web cases
17:30 - What the dark web market is like
20:24 - Neutralizing a dark web market
24:00 - Main threats of crypto threats and fraud
26:50 - State-sponsored crypto theft
28:45 - Why begin CAT Labs
35:40 - Day-to-day CAT Labs CEO work
41:30 - How to work in crypto crime
45:40 - CAT Labs' future
46:58 - Learn more about Infante
47:43 - Outro

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About Infosec
Infosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

James Stanger, chief technology evangelist at CompTIA, discusses CompTIA's Cloud+ certification and why security professionals must consider adding it to the certification toolbox.

0:00 - CompTIA Cloud+ certification 
1:06 - Benefits of Cloud+
3:24 - Cloud+ is vendor agnostic
6:27 - Preparing for Cloud+
8:43 - Cloud+'s future  
11:18 - Good Cloud+ training   
12:50 - How to study for Cloud+
14:26 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Leonid Belkind is the chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of Torq, a no-code security automation platform. After asking him buckets of questions about the day-to-day work of a CTO in the tech field, we get into a fascinating discussion of all the ways that automation will change the work of cybersecurity, allowing professionals at all stages to work on higher-order problems. At the same time, the great automated data sifters do high-speed data analysis beyond our cognition. This one gets pretty heady folks, especially once we compare CTOs to orchestra conductors.

0:00 - Uses of automation
2:50 - How Leonid got into tech
5:30 - Chief technology officer and endpoint security roles
8:30 - Enpoint used during work from home
10:30 - Average day as a CTO at Torq
17:25 - Cybersecurity market predictions
19:30 - Skills and talents that make a good CTO
21:27 - Zero-trust Pentagon directive
24:35 - Reframing how we view automation
30:06 - Automation and disabilities
33:15 - Automation's big discussions
39:40 - How automation can improve jobs
42:20 - How to work in automation
48:02 - Communication in cybersecurity
50:55 - What is Torq?
53:04 - Learn more about Torq and Leonid Belkind
53:42 - Outro

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About Infosec
Infosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Jacob DePriest, GitHub’s VP, deputy chief security officer,  talks about what GitHub is, how it works and what to do with it once you start to understand it. 

0:00 - GitHub fundamentals
1:30 - What is GitHub?
2:11 - How did GitHub get so popular?
3:15 - Where to start at GitHub
4:15 - How to search GitHub
5:52 - Evaluating GitHub materials
7:47 - GitHub shortcuts for security professionals
9:03 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Dara Gibson of Optiv and the Phoenix, Arizona, branch of Women in Cybersecurity has developed and managed cybersecurity services for five years. After years of being an educator, Gibson felt the pull of cybersecurity and tech. For those of you who are thinking of making a later-in-life, life-changing career shift into cybersecurity and feeling a bit overwhelmed, do not miss this episode! Gibson strikes the perfect balance between pushing you out of the nest without pushing you off a cliff!

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0:00 - Changing to a cybersecurity role from another profession
2:56 - Dara Gibson’s start in cybersecurity
7:28 - Guidance in cybersecurity 
10:00 - Working as a cyber insurance specialist 
15:00 - Phoenix Women in Cybersecurity
17:06 - Where Women in Cybersecurity members come from
21:00 - How to get past the HR barrier in cybersecurity 
24:20 - Applying to cybersecurity jobs
26:52 - Common paths in cybersecurity for job changers
29:00 - Tips for cybersecurity job posting
34:40 - Advice to attract women to cybersecurity
36:35 - Get involved in Women in Cybersecurity 
38:35 - Barriers to getting women in cybersecurity
40:42 - Learn more about Dara Gibson
41:15 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Paula Bratcher Ratliff owns and is president of Women Impact Tech, an organization committed to bringing women and diverse professionals into cybersecurity. They have clear goals, committed members and proven results.

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0:00 - Women Impact Tech
3:11 - Paula's career
8:30 - Entering cybersecurity from different industries
11:40 - Employee retention in cybersecurity
16:32 - Cybersecurity hiring improvements
20:52 - Changing internal promotions
28:20 - Services from Women Impact Tech
32:50 - What Women Impact Tech does at events
36:30 - Effective strategies to bring equity in cybersecurity 
43:52 - Protecting women online
47:44 - Upcoming Women Impact Tech events
50:00 - Outro

About Infosec
Infosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Amber Schroader, CEO of Paraben, gives her best pieces of advice for the work of searching for a job in the field of digital forensics.

0:00 - Get a job in digital forensics
1:30 - Put your best foot forward on social media
3:00 - Updating your digital forensics resume
4:36 - Digital forensics interview tips
5:23 - Let your personality shine
6:14 - Success in your digital forensics job
9:30 - Find more from Amber Schroader

About Infosec
Infosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.