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___Tom___ t1_iv02yu9 wrote

Reply to comment by cathlicjoo in I'm Gage Bennett, a Defense Content Developer at Offensive Security Ask me anything about cyber security and defense content creation. by Offsec_Community

Not OP, but my company is looking, so: The right mindset. Skills can be acquired. But dealing with an intelligent, intentionally acting adversary is fundamentally different from dealing with technical failures, environment events or simple system behaviour. This is also where in the training scenarios I sometimes run most companies fail. They can handle a fire, a DDoS attack, a malware outbreak - but they can't handle a hacker who will pivot and react to whatever you're doing. Having a basic grasp of what it means to be under attack is essential.

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___Tom___ t1_iv02neg wrote

Reply to comment by Offsec_Community in I'm Gage Bennett, a Defense Content Developer at Offensive Security Ask me anything about cyber security and defense content creation. by Offsec_Community

Second that. Some of the world-class people I'm lucky to know in the field have no formal qualifications. However, many of them are (like myself) dinosaurs from a time when there was no "IT Security" study. You'd study something with IT and then pivot into security. These days, qualifications are getting more important, but everywhere I've worked within the past 10 years people were still open for lateral entrants.

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___Tom___ t1_iv0285a wrote

Reply to comment by kee80 in I'm Gage Bennett, a Defense Content Developer at Offensive Security Ask me anything about cyber security and defense content creation. by Offsec_Community

Not OP, but IMHO the single best thing you can do is to not re-use passwords. Use a different password for every website you have an account on, because password leaks are common and your username is often your e-mail these days, and hackers will take a leaked password database and try those e-mail/password combinations on other sites, especially social media, gmail, and others that offer SSO ("log in with Facebook/GMail/Github/etc")

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