October 1, 2020

Buffalo State Data Talk

Episode 3: Cybersecurity, threat hunting and other industry skills, an interview with Jeff Rathmann from Silo City IT

 

Episode 3 features Jeff Rathmann, the CEO of Silo City IT a cybersecurity and pen testing firm located in Buffalo, NY. Jeff talks about his job as a cyber security expert, skills needed to excel in the industry, and shares is favorite resources for becoming a better cyber security specialist. 

 

For more information about the conference Jeff talked about visit https://www.defcon.org/ and watch some of the panel discussions. To get started in cybersecurity Jeff suggests checking out https://www.wireshark.org/ which provides many tutorials and free training or https://github.com/ which has lots of free training.  

0:00 Introduction 

0:40 What is cybersecurity? 

1:31 What does a cybersecurity firm do? 

4:01 Working as the CEO of a cybersecurity firm 

7:33 Jeff’s favorite part of working in cybersecurity

10:00 Challenges of working internationally for the US military

12:24 Skills needed to work in cybersecurity

19:17 Technology used in cybersecurity

25:05 What to do if you are interested in starting a career in cybersecurity

27:22 Outro 

 

Learn more about Jeff’s Company here https://www.silocityit.com/. 

  

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