Career Advice

Your career can be a long, winding journey with many twists, turns and forks in the road. I have learned an awful lot over my 27+ years by sitting through a lot of interviews (as an interviewer and interviewee), updating a lot of resume's (not just my own) and speaking with a lot of different people within HR, job placement agencies, hiring managers, etc. I’ve worked in many different sectors (large retail, financial services, etc.) for both large, global companies as well as small start-ups. I’m hoping to translate these experiences into tips and recommendations as well as lessons learned to help improve your interviewing skills, resume' writing abilities and job searching techniques. These tips are based on my experiences and what I have learned along the way, but they do not make me an expert nor are they infallible. Your mileage may vary since your career path has most certainly been different than mine. I would suggest taking these tips and combine them with your own experiences and research to find the right balance that works for you.

Rob at Room362 has put together a list of articles from various infosec professionals discussing a variety of topics such as how to get started in infosec, hiring your first security professional, and much more. I definitely recommend going through Rob's collection, titled "Start in Infosec".

Lenny Zeltser has great information regarding resume’s, interviewing, and salary negotiations at “Tips For Getting the Right IT Job”.

Quick link to my post on Podcasts (includes links to various podcasts). (Last updated 12/16/2019)

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May 25, 2019

Interview questions for, or to ask, infosec candidates

May 25, 2019/ Logical Cybersecurity

Interviews for a security engineer or SOC analyst position can be stressful as quite a few will include in-depth technical questions. I’ve helped quite a few people prepare for infosec interviews over the years, so I wanted to make a post to help others prepare as well. I will provide a large number of questions which can be used to help an infosec professional prepare for an interview, but this list of questions will also help infosec professionals and hiring managers when interviewing candidates. It can be used as a quick reference guide to construct a list of questions to ask potential candidates. The questions will vary for a variety of different roles, so an interviewer and interviewee would need to pick and choose the appropriate questions based on the role/job duties. The list contains a mixture of technical questions as well as personality type questions.

May 25, 2019

Questions to ask during your interview

May 25, 2019/ Logical Cybersecurity

Two of the things I’ve been asked a lot over my career when mentoring is, “What questions should I ask in an interview?” or “What questions do you ask in an interview?” Not only did these questions inspire me to write this blog post for people new to the interviewing process, but also wanted to help out the “seasoned interviewers” by having a list of questions on stand-by for when they are needed.

January 04, 2018

Podcasts are a time saver and great way to learn

January 04, 2018/ Logical Cybersecurity

Keeping up with infosec current events, news, vulnerabilities, etc. can be very challenging. If you are like me, you have a long list of various threat feeds, security blogs, etc. bookmarked, but never seem to have time to read any of them. Either we don't have time while at work due to our teams being understaffed and overworked or we can't find time after work due to life happening. For me, everything changed when I stumbled on to my first security podcast. Here is a list of various podcasts (security, compliance and privacy), which you may find to be very helpful and enlightening. (Last updated 9/1/2019)

May 31, 2017

What not to do in a job interview

May 31, 2017/ Logical Cybersecurity

I've interviewed several candidates over the years and there have been things I've noticed first hand that has turned me off from a candidate. Along with these first hand experiences, I'll add in things I've heard from other job interviewers, HR personnel, recruiters, hiring managers, etc. to hopefully provide a list of several things you may want to avoid when attending job interviews.

May 21, 2017

Curiosity and the ability to learn on your own are musts!

May 21, 2017/ Logical Cybersecurity

Two of the most important characteristics for people to have in information security, cybersecurity or information technology in general is curiosity and the ability to learn on your own.

May 07, 2017

You don't have to be an IT expert to be in infosec

May 07, 2017/ Logical Cybersecurity

Being a hacker like those seen on Mr. Robot is awesome, but don't fret...there are plenty of non-hacker positions needing to be filled in the information security or cybersecurity field.