Hacking into Security - Career Talks

Bobby Stoskopf is a Security Manager at Mailchimp, a company where he started as a Customer Support Agent. We discuss Bobby's journey and how he became the company's first security employee and help build a security team. Bobby also shares tips from a hiring manager's perspective.

In this episode, we catch up with Zachary Mikus a Threat Detection Engineer.Zach left school at a young age, worked in his family business as a landscape gardener, become a cook and is now working hunting bots. Zach shares his personal story about how he got his break into the industry, working in a SOC for one of Australia's largest banks and what he does in his current role.We discussed the skills Zach used working in a SOC and what he uses to hunt bots. Zach is passionate about supporting others and advises on what others can do to help in their career.

We catch up with Prashant Venkatesh, a specialist in Application Security and an OWASP Bay Area Chapter Lead.With over 10 years of experience in building teams and uplifting environments in Application Security, we discuss what Application Security means to Venkatesh, how he got started in the area, how others can get started and advice for organizations that want to increase their security.

In this episode, we speak with Afterpay CISO Marc Bown.Marc's career started on the technical side as a Penetration Tester and has progressed to become CISO for one of the fastest-growing e-commerce payment companies in the market.We discuss the differences between working in the Bay Area and Australia, how he moved in his career and share advice for aspiring CISOs.

In this episode, we catch up with Maxie Reynolds, a specialist in Social Engineering. Maxie left Scotland at a relatively young age and has gone on to work around the world. She worked offshore on oil rigs, become a penetration tester at a big four consulting company, started her own business and is now working as a Social Engineering Consultant. We get to hear what about the type of engagements Maxie has worked on, the skills involved and advice for others wanting to learn about social engineering.

In this episode, we catch up with Abbas Kudrati. Abbas has an impressive career which has seen him work around the world and is now operating as a Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Microsoft. Abbas started off his career in a technical role and then progressed to working as a CISO for various organisations. He is incredibly generous with his time and gives back to the community in many ways, including as a part-time Lecturer for "Masters in Cyber Security" program at La Trobe University. In our conversation, Abbas gives practical advice for others working in technical roles that aspire to work in a CISO position.

We catch up with Casey Ellis, founder of the number one crowdsourced security platform, Bugcrowd. Through our conversation, we go through the journey of starting a business, moving countries, multimillion-dollar raises and more. Casey also shares his advice to future founders.

Ian shares the insight of someone that has transitioned from working a Recruitment Consultant to General Manager of XZ Security, one of New Zealand’s leading penetration testing companies.He talks about his journey into security, discusses the skills required for a non-technical person working in a security company and what his company look for when hiring.

This episode is with Francisco “Disco” Morales who works in Talent Acquisition at Canva. Disco has helped Canva hire over 100 people and prior to this had a background in agency recruitment. He shares the views of someone working in a team that receive over 50,000 jobs applications a year.Disco recommends some tips that can help someone standout ad improve their chances when applying for a role.

This episode is with Cairo Malet.Cairo is a Cyber Risk Advisor working in Cyber Security Risk and Advisory for a major mining company. That isn't where her career started and we get to hear Cairo's journey from barista to working in an organisation that could have her performing security assessments on mining sites and ships.