Long-term cybersecurity career strategies | Guest Maxime Lamothe-Brassard

Maxime Lamothe-Brassard, founder of LimaCharlie, has worked for Crowdstrike, Google X and Chronicle Security before starting his own company. This episode goes deep into thinking about your long-term career strategies, so don’t miss this one if you’re thinking about where you want to go in cybersecurity in two, five or even 10 years from now.

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0:00 - Intro 
2:56 - First getting into cybersecurity 
6:46 - Working in Canada's national defense
9:33 - Learning on the job
10:39 - Security practices in government versus private sector
13:50 - Average day at LimaCharlie
16:40 - Career journey
19:25 - Skills picked up at each position 
23:57 - How is time length changing? 
27:53 - Security tools and how they could be
31:34 - Where do security tool kits fail? 
34:04 - Current state of practice and study
37:10 - Advice for cybersecurity students in 2022
38:21 - More about LimaCharlie
39:50 - Learn more about LImaCharlie or Maxime
40:08 - Outro

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