Seeing a massive problem in the security industry today. We have brand new candidates lacking "hands on" experience coming into the workforce and finding it extremely difficult to find a job. 1/10
We talk about skills shortages everywhere in cyber security - but almost 99% of the job postings I see are for already experienced individuals.
We have a skills shortage because we are not hiring new security folks into this industry. 2/10
As an example, we recently opened up two internship spots and had over 900 applicants. This is insane and impossible odds for these folks.
Salaries are out of control for minimal experience where companies are paying outrageous wages for just a few years of experience. 3/10
While I'm totally good with paying for experience, it's a tug of war of already experienced folks while not fixing the root cause of the problem:
Giving newcomers into this industry a chance to learn and to get hands-on experience. 4/10
it doesn't help that most course programs in colleges are an absolute disaster and train-wreck.
We have candidates who come out with bachelors and don't even know basics of networking, linux fundamentals, programming or really anything other than high level topics. 5/10
I would rather take most computer science degree holders versus cyber security degrees except for a few select school programs that I know and trust.
That still doesn't fix the influx of new folks into the industry and our ability for them to get jobs. 6/10
I'm trying here at both #BinaryDefense and #TrustedSec, but we're small in comparison to the entire industry. I have ideas on expanding our programs, but we got to fix the industry as a whole here. 7/10
I'm almost apprehensive to tell others to come join this industry due to this problem. It's massive, and it's getting worse day by day.
We don't have a skills shortage in cyber security - we have a commitment issue to the next generation of hackers. 8/10
Open to ideas here, this is also more of a call for others to try and help to bring newcomers aboard and help fix the problem. 9/10
There's so much knowledge being shared in this industry from formalized college training, to self-taught online courses and certifications. The path is there for those that want to come, but we also have to fix the pipe to bring new folks into the industry. eom 10/10
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A friend sent me a pic of mandatory/required in-person training they are required to do and one of the topics was cybersecurity.
Of course, it was a black hoodie-looking hacker, and the course was about as dry as it could possibly be.
It was good to get his perspective (1/4)
He learned absolutely nothing.
It was more on scare tactics of what hackers could do to spy on you and the company.
It wasn't exciting and wasn't about what's happening and what you can do to protect the company and your own personal assets.
(2/4)
If we are looking to curb user behavior, we need to explain WHY humans are a risk factor in the organization's overall threat model in very basic terms.
Assigning responsibility and ownership here is key in that it's everyone's mission in an org. Again, keep it basic.
If you control your calories, you control your body.
It starts with eating.
Losing weight == less calories.
Some tools can help, mostly short term such as intermittent fasting, keto, etc. These are great things for fast or short term..some can do it long term but is rare.
Once coming out of these "diets", you need a program to keep the weight off.
Count those calories.
Don't start with cardio and buying a treadmill.
It won't work unless your mind is right on food.
Control your food first, and add cardio or weightlifting once your calories are right.
More cardio == you wanting to eat more == eating too much.
I wanted to clarify some complex topics regarding the Exchange / ProxyLogon discussions that happened since the dust has settled.
1. I'm concerned generally about the negativity against security researchers releasing code as I view this as taking steps back not forward.
1/10
2. I think researchers should be mindful of when a PoC drops. In the ProxyLogon event, I was against dropping early to give companies time to patch. In stating that, there should be no hindrance as to when a researcher publishes code, especially after a patch is released.
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3. My biggest fear is we are moving back to where red is secretive in TTPs which does not help the industry progress forward. This occurred several years ago in this industry, and there were several years of organizations not understanding how to defend themselves.
Last week, made a comment about how I wasn't a huge fan of Sentinel overall. Got to dive a bit deeper into it with my team over at Binary and has definitely changed my perspective a bit.
Sentinel is not easy by any stretch but there is a lot to it.
If you have the right data going into it (which isn't easy), and you have a team behind you to build up the detections, Sentinel is extremely powerful.
With jupyter and KQL foundation is super powerful to build what you need to off of it.
From my comments earlier, it is a solid product.. It just requires a substantial lift to get it to a point that will help you mature monitoring and detection capabilities.
Requires a knowledgeable team is the biggest thing there.