The SynAckFinAck Podcast

In a number of conversations lately writing has been coming up as a critical skill to advance your career. I've been trying to write daily for the last few years and improve that area. I was lucky to have Richard Lowe come on the podcast this week. He went from a tech career to a writing career and has great advice for anyone in technology wanting to move up. You can contact Richard at the links below:

Richard Lowe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardlowejr/

Robert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrounsavall/

If you want to get into cybersecurity, the military is a great route. John went to the Navy, got a ton of training, his masters degree, and worked at Microsoft all while in the Navy! Aside from the opportunity to serve your country, there are some great options available to have a career in cyber. We discuss this and why he jumped out and started Breachbits. His company is enabling organization who can't bring in one of the big consulting firms to do an assessment have ongoing testing done for a fraction of the cost. Lot's of companies need world class penetration testing and assessments for overall security and compliance and they are filling that space very quickly.

I love what they are doing and had a great time chatting with John!

John's company Breachbits: https://www.breachbits.com/

Connect with John on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-lundgren/

It was awesome to spend some time with Bryce Webster-Jacobsen from Groupsense. They are helping companies by finding bad things on the dark web. I love how he took his background in education and transitioned it to be successful in a leading edge cyber security company. You don't have to be a programmer or computer scientist to be successful in cyber and Bryce is a great example of that!

Bryce on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryce-webster-jacobsen-73553057/

Bryce on Twitter: @BrycexWJ

Groupsense: https://www.groupsense.io/

Robert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrounsavall/

As I was re-listening to this podcast to make sure the audio is ok, I found myself saying over and over, oh that is GREAT information for someone getting into cyber. Mark is the co-founder and COO at Alphawave and has a ton of experience responding to large incidents and running teams that do that. I enjoyed chatting with him about what it takes to succeed in cyber and also why if you are in cyber you should learn jiu-jitsu!

Connect with Mark on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-st-john-1058a5a/

Connect with Me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrounsavall/

In this episode I chat with Derek Cuesta, an amazing security architect for a fortune 500 company. We talk about the skills that are the most important to be successful in the role, and it's not all technical skills!

Connect with Derek on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekcuesta/

Connect with me: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrounsavall/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robrounsavall/

Welcome to the SynAckFinAck Podcast! Today I am having a conversation with Drew Goletz. Drew has been in E-Discovery for almost 15 years. He came in through the copy scan world. He first worked in litigation support. Then, shortly after Hurricane Katrina, scanning technology boomed and was the new thing. His career has progressed from paper to small native documents to larger files and now mobile forensics.

During this episode, we dive into all things E-Discovery. E-Discovery explained in simplest terms is taking data and putting it into it's simplest view. Tune in for great insights from Drew about E-Discovery, what it takes to do this type of work, recommendations for those interested in E-Discovery and how Drew sees the future of the field going forward.

• How Drew and I started talking about Tech [3:02]
• Drew's story and how he entered the tech space [6:18]
• Describing E-Discovery [11:40]
• When does a company typically engage for E-Discovery services [17:50]
• Skills people need for E-Discovery work [19:49]
• Recommendations for college grads interested in E-Discovery [22:04]
• Breaking into E-Discovery [22:43]
• Working with Relativity One [27:33]
• How Drew sees the field going forward [29:38]

Video of the alligators we discussed while running in the everglades...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRbOjKbbfk0

E-Discovery Reference Modelhttps://edrm.net/resources/frameworks-and-standards/edrm-model/

Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialistshttps://aceds.org/

LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/drew-goletz-4b073913/

Avalon https://www.teamavalon.com/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrounsavall/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/robrounsavall/

I've been wanting to have a recruiter on for a while and was excited when Sam agreed to come on the podcast and chat. He is the head of Computer Vision and AI recruiting at Lawrence Harvey, one of the high end recruiting firms. His team helps companies find data scientists and other very senior technology placements for companies ranging from startups to fortune 100 enterprises.

If you are in tech and looking to change gigs, how can you get to the front of the line?

If you are hiring, how can you find the best talent?

How can you hire data scientists?

How can you figure out who is looking for what?

Sam has the answers and I know you will enjoy this episode!

Connect with Sam on LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-brown-47b989ba/

https://www.lawrenceharvey.com/

Commander Steve Fulkerson has had an amazing career in technology floating between cyber research at the most senior levels in the Department of Defense and customer success in the private sector. There are all types of technology careers in cyber and other spaces within technology and this episode is a great example of that.

Enjoy!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenfulkerson/

https://www.tsia.com/

Great chat with Lonnie Harris from Equifax. Lonnie started out in engineering working on the Boeing 777 and then moved to Cisco and now is at Equifax. Great insight into what skills people need in cyber and what people are looking for.

Also the best time is NOW to get into cyber.

I enjoyed the conversation and know you will too!

If you have cloud/siem/cyber skills and are looking for a gig, Lonnie probably wants to hear from you.

Lonnie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lonnie-harris-jr-9328153/

Robert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrounsavall/

Contact the podcast: [email protected]

In this episode, I am happy to be joined by Dr. Bartley Richardson from NVIDIA to chat about GPU based data science and how to get ahead in cyber.

I've worked in places where I've have to process ALOT of data whether it be network traffic or logs. I've had problems with data that standard methodologies and hardware just can't scale to handle handle.

Bartley and the team over at NVIDIA has been thinking about how to leverage the power of their platforms to solve some of these hard challenges with GPU based data science capabilities.

If you are in security operations working with large volumes of data, or architecting your platforms, you should take a look at rapids.ai.

"The RAPIDS suite of open source software libraries and APIs gives you the ability to execute end-to-end data science and analytics pipelines entirely on GPUs."

A GREAT place to start learning about Rapids is their page on Medium where they are always sharing great content about what they are doing.

Links:

https://medium.com/rapids-ai https://rapids.ai/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/bartleyrichardson/

I think you will love this episode!

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If you have feedback or suggestions for guests just shoot me a note at [email protected]