Cyber Work

Infosec and Cyber Work hacks want to help you pass the Security+ exam! We have three separate hacks on this channel to help you through the process of studying for and taking the exam. But what about in the years after, when it’s time to get ready to recertify? Infosec boot camp instructor Tommy Gober walks you through all the different ways you can earn your continuing education units (CEU), how many you need to re-certify your Security+ and some less-known activities that can keep your CEU numbers rising and make ongoing learning an ongoing process, not something you need to “cram” at the end of three years. Wanna know more? Well, it's all here in today’s Cyber Work Hack. 0:00 - Security+ certification renewal1:30 - Why does CompTIA require renewal?4:37 - How to earn continuing education units6:51 - Fun ways to earn continuing education units8:04 - Log your continuing education unit hours9:44 - Continuing education unit consistency 12:25 - CompTIA certification continuing education 15:14 - OutroAbout InfosecInfosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Tom Terronez joins Cyber Work to discuss security in an industry that doesn’t always make the headlines for security news: dentistry. Terronez co-founded Medix Dental, an IT and security provider for the dental industry, 20 years ago, and has the lowdown on some of the specific security issues dentist offices and networks face. It is an uphill battle to get the industry to acknowledge its extreme insecurity, and I find out how a shared love of Hall & Oates got Terronez into this very specific area of the security sphere. And I promise that I tried to avoid overusing the phrase “drill down on this point.” Spoiler: I failed.0:00 - Dental industry cybersecurity 2:00 - Terronez's interest in tech3:55 - Dentistry cybersecurity 20 years ago5:00 - Dentistry cybersecurity dangers and issues15:55 - Why the dental industry is susceptible to cyberattacks18:50 - Common attack vectors against dentists23:37 - How to work in dental cybersecurity 25:20 - What working in dental cybersecurity is like26:40 - Volunteer opportunities in dental cybersecurity 28:22 - 2024 dental cybersecurity trends31:20 - Tom Terronez's best cybersecurity career advice32:50 - Learn more about Medix Dental34:03 - Outro – Get your FREE cybersecurity training resources: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/free– View Cyber Work Podcast transcripts and additional episodes: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcastAbout InfosecInfosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Infosec and the Cyber Work Hacks podcast are here to help you pass the Security+ exam! For today’s hack, let’s talk bootcamps. If you’ve been piecing your way through the Sec+ study guide for six months or more, it’s possible that you would learn better in a concentrated, focused environment with expert instruction. I’m talking, of course, about Infosec boot camp instructor Tommy Gober! Goberwill walks you through what the Infosec five-day Security+ boot camp is like the learning and memorizing strategies you’ll employ and all the ways that boot camp training can make the difference between passing on the first try and endless headaches and heartaches of re-sitting the exam. You don’t have to do it alone! But to learn more, you do have to keep it here for another Cyber Work Hack. 0:00 - Security+ boot camp   1:30 - Boot camp training versus classroom 6:25 - Breaking down five days of boot camp8:50 - What is it like to attend a boot camp? 12:14 - How does the boot camp prepare for the exam?14:01 - Is a boot camp right for you?15:30 - Outro– Get your FREE cybersecurity training resources: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/free– View Cyber Work Podcast transcripts and additional episodes: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcastAbout InfosecInfosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT, and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and at home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Miami University's (in Oxford, Ohio) Farmer School of Business Information Systems and Security researcher Joseph Nwankpa joins Cyber Work today. Nwankpa recently wrote a report that overturns some huge assumptions: he found that work-from-home employees are, to a large degree, less of a security issue than many on-premises workers. Nwankpa discusses The Peltzman Effect, the persistent struggles to create security awareness that lasts past the initial training sessions and talks about some surprising reasons that the higher education sector has been shown to be less sophisticated in their security awareness than many other industries.0:00 - Are remote workers more cyber secure? 2:00 - How did Joseph Nwankpa get into cybersecurity? 7:53 - Findings on remote worker security12:00 - Cybersecurity strategies in different work locations17:05 - A company's cybersecurity compliance culture19:07 - Best lessons for best remote work security practices22:00 - Internalizing securing awareness26:40 - Higher ed issues with cybersecurity 31:00 - Higher ed and phishing emails33:00 - Remote work security blind spots35:50 - Become a security awareness professional 41:54 - Miami University's information systems program44:00 - Learn more about Nwankpa45:01 - Outro– Get your FREE cybersecurity training resources: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/free– View Cyber Work Podcast transcripts and additional episodes: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcastAbout InfosecInfosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Cyber Work Hacks is here to answer your questions about the CompTIA Security+ exam! Today, Infosec boot camp instructor Tommy Gober reviews Security+ exam sample questions and shares tips to pass your Security+ 701 exam.0:00 - Security+ exam mechanics1:15 - The different types of Security+ exam questions3:55 - How do you see your Security+ exam results?5:10 - Security+ exam example question 19:27 - Security+ exam example question 211:32- Security+ exam example question 315:08- Security+ practice exam16:29 - Security+ exam day advice18:05 - Outro– Get your FREE cybersecurity training resources: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/free– View Cyber Work Podcast transcripts and additional episodes: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcastAbout InfosecInfosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Ken Westin of Panther Labs has a bit of fact-checking he wants to do on some of the tech stories we read daily in the papers. Does J.P. Morgan really get 45 billion cyberattacks per day? Really? Are there other factors in this number that aren’t emphasized in the interest of chasing panic clicks? Westin and I talk about responsible ways to cover big security stories in the news, ways that each of us can become cyber fact-checkers and advocates, and Westin tells me about how his personal interests have turned into creating some very cool anti-theft tools. You can hear me audibly blown away by one in particular! 0:00 - Mega cyberattacks 2:00 - How Ken Westin got into cybersecurity 10:44 - J.P. Morgan cyberattacks 16:00 - Media and PR as a form of social engineering17:48 - Reframing the cyberattack narrative19:50 - CISO burnout and responsibility23:04 - Advice to CISO workers to fight new threats28:35 - Changing the cybersecurity narrative33:43 - Advice to cybersecurity professionals 37:30 - Outro – Get your FREE cybersecurity training resources: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/free– View Cyber Work Podcast transcripts and additional episodes: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcastAbout InfosecInfosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Cyber Work Hacks is here to answer your questions about the CompTIA Security+ exam! Today, Infosec boot camp instructor Tommy Gober tells us about the new changes to the Security+ exam and how it will (or will not) affect your study and preparation for the exam! Keep learning, and keep it here for another Cyber Work Hack.Get your free Security+ ebook, "CompTIA Security+ 701: How the world's most popular cert is changing in 2024" https://www.infosecinstitute.com/form/comptia-security-601/0:00 - Security+ exam changes 1:05 - Key ways the Security+ exam has changed (SY0-701)3:47 - Why make the Security+ exam changes? 5:30 - Security+ exam studying strategy 6:47 - Most crucial Security+ exam skills for the future9:48 - Best advice before taking the Security+ exam  11:28 - OutroAbout InfosecInfosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Today on Cyber Work, Sean Falconer of Skyflow and host of the Partially Redacted and Software Huddle podcasts, joins me to talk about the present and future of consumer and user data privacy, the pros and cons of adding more privacy regulations into place and his journey from software development and engineering to his current place of working closely and deeply with the future of API-based data encryption and privacy. And stick around because Falconer will share the best career advice he ever received! 0:00 - Consumer and user data privacy2:02 - When did Falconer get into tech?6:40 - Three degrees in computer science12:40 - Current issues around data privacy19:25 - The end of "Wild West" data privacy laws24:00 - External factors on data privacy28:03 - Why am I accepting cookies on websites?34:45 - Experiences and learning for data privacy careers41:44 - Learn more about Skyflow and Falconer42:26 - Outro– Get your FREE cybersecurity training resources: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/free– View Cyber Work Podcast transcripts and additional episodes: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcastAbout InfosecInfosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Adrianna Iadarola of CyberSN joins me today to break down every spot on the cybersecurity job search, hiring, upskilling and retention pipeline. After her raucous and highly informative presentation at ISACA Digital Trust World, I knew I had to introduce you to this great analyst and thinker. Whether you’re doing the hiring or being the hiree, you will find something crucial to your new year journey today on Cyber Work. 0:00 - Problems with cybersecurity hiring 2:19 - How Adrianna Iadarola got into cybersecurity 6:03 - Skills required to jump cybersecurity roles 8:13 - How the cybersecurity job landscape has changed 13:30 - Skills gap in cybersecurity and timing 15:15 - Cybersecurity HR hiring issues 20:05 - Why is AI security executive level? 25:16 - Change in soliciting cybersecurity candidates 30:16 - Recommendations on changing a cybersecurity team 35:30 - Strategies in cybersecurity language 40:00 - Advice for people heading into cybersecurity 43:20 - Where are cybersecurity budgets and investments going? 49:52 - What is CyberSN? 52:01 - Outro – Get your FREE cybersecurity training resources: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/free– View Cyber Work Podcast transcripts and additional episodes: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcastAbout InfosecInfosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.

Today's guest is Anthony Pacilio, VP Neurodiverse Solutions at CAI. I met Pacilio at this year’s ISACA Digital Trust World event in Boston, and I was immediately fascinated with his insights on hiring and attracting neurodiverse professionals in security, IT, engineering and related industries, all of which suffer a skills gap and all of which are in need of new insights and working methods. Pacilio and I have a substantive conversation about changing the structure of the “6-hour marathon” interview process, the difference between an employee who stays in one job role vs. an employee who stays in but re-imagines that one job role, and why this new way of hiring and recruitment can lead to nothing less than an entire transformation of a company’s work culture.  0:00 - Neurodiversity and cybersecurity leadership 4:18 - Pacilio's early years with tech7:40 - Shifting roles in cybersecurity 12:55 - VP of neurodiverse solutions 16:10 - CAI's dedication to neurodiversity  19:27 - Neurodiverse solutions in cybersecurity and IT23:50 - Rethinking the cybersecurity role interview26:32 - Adopting new interview strategies 33:03 - Examples and success stories 35:30 - Where neurodiverse workers succeed in cybersecurity 42:04 - Tips for neurodiverse learners in cybersecurity 45:58 - Advice for new cybersecurity professionals 52:30 - Learn more about CAI53:05 - Outro– Get your FREE cybersecurity training resources: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/free– View Cyber Work Podcast transcripts and additional episodes: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcastAbout InfosecInfosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.