Cybersecurity - Q&A [x-post] /v/IT

20    07 Jan 2016 02:52 by u/IllIllI

I'll be hosting a five part Cybersecurity Q&A in this sub (/v/IT) starting this Saturday, January 9th at 8 PM Eastern and lasting one hour. The sessions will be each Saturday, same time and length, for five weeks.

About me I am a Cybersecurity researcher with formal training in EC-Council C|EH, C|HFI, Network Defense, and other related topics. I have a background in programming, networking (layer 2 and 3), database management, project management, covering military and private sectors over the last 18 years.

I am not doing this to promote myself for job recruitment opportunities. The sessions are provided as a means to transfer knowledge, exchange ideas, and enhance personal and professional growth in the Cybersecurity field for all involved.

Intended Audience These sessions are meant for individuals in upper management or senior positions, but all are welcome. No topic or questions are considered off-limits, but please try to keep the conversation to subject matter that pertains to the widest audience for the benefit of all involved.

I'll do my best to answer every question, but time and upvoats dictate the flow.

Please Note I won't divulge information or participate in activity which is considered illegal (in the United States); I operate in a strictly non-Black Hat manner. That being said, there is plenty of room for quality intellectual conversation and discussion on the topics at hand.

Schedule Week 1 - Physical security Week 2 - Logical security: Enterprise Software Week 3 - Logical security: In-House Developed Software Week 4 - Logical security: Networks Week 5 - Hackers & Hacking

Update 1: Week 1 session is now open for questions and voats in the /v/IT Subverse. The interactive portion will begin at 8 PM Eastern, as scheduled.

Update 2: Week 1 closed

Update 3: The remaining four sessions will be done in /v/Programming, all at once, from 1 PM until 6 PM Eastern on Jan. 16th.

Update 4: Delayed one week. We were under tornado warning the other day; the bad weather caused my work at home SO to have to work today instead of then so I'm on toddler duty today, unfortunately.

12 comments

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I'm excited about this, I'll plan to have some questions ready. I'm not sure how much the one hour time window will matter - as I suspect questions/replies will trickle in much longer than that. Some threads move a bit slower...

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Understood, and accounted for. This topic is widely ranging and very divisive for many stakeholders, so overflow is expected.

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NICE ! LOOKING FOWARD TO THIS!

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I would love to see this, although i'm surprised you don't do this to V AMA ? there is a bit of a wider audience there.

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I want to see it for the content and the lulz

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I'll do it there if that's a better venue.

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I'd be concerned about the quality of questions over in the generic one. May I suggest opening your AMA a few hours early to get questions trickling in and upvoated/downvoated accordingly before you actually start? The programming/IT communities aren't huge and it'd give more people a chance to get questions in before you start.

Also, thanks for doing this, I'm looking forward to it!

Edit: one more thought - the mods may be willing to sticky your post for the day as well, which would help.

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Good call. The sessions will open three hours earlier than the start time in order to attain the questions & voats necessary.

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AMAs are shit. Once you involve the gen public, quality goes waaaaay down. Keep it to smaller tight knit communities for better quality.

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Agreed. I'd say keep it to a tech subverse at a bare minimum.

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I'm extremely excited about this. I just got a contract where I am exposed to pretty sensitive data. Specifically, I'm doing work with medical records. While I'm not directly working with the cybersecurity portion of it, I am interested to learn more. Do you have any experience with HIPAA compliance and standards for protection of patient data?

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Yes, I do through formal training and I also have working experience with sensitive information ranging from PII to U.S. military Secret.