Real-world IT & cybersecurity career guidance, practical insights, and lessons from the field. Drawing on 26+ years in IT & cybersecurity and 14+ years in the classroom, I cover career decisions, skills, certifications, security operations, GRC, leadership, and what the work actually looks like.
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Your Deal Just Stalled on a Security Questionnaire: Here’s What to Do in the Next Two Weeks A founder messaged me last month with a familiar kind of p...
How to Report Cybersecurity Problems to Leadership Without Damaging Your Career The ability to communicate cybersecurity issues to executives has beco...
Why Every Business Needs a Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan A dental practice in suburban Ohio discovered their computer systems were locked by ra...
Why Curiosity Beats Technical Skills in Cybersecurity Careers The cybersecurity field changes faster than almost any other technical discipline. Tools...
Why Every Company Needs Digital Rules And What Happens When They Don’t Have Them Behind every workplace technology policy that seems unnecessarily res...
Why “How Do I Break Into Tech?” Is the Wrong Question to Ask Career changers and students entering cybersecurity often start networking conversations ...
Business Email Compromise: How Scammers Target Your Workplace Emails Business email compromise cost organizations $2.4 billion in 2021, according to F...
Before Disaster Strikes: Building Your First Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan Creating an incident response plan before a security crisis hits sep...
What Working in Cybersecurity Actually Looks Like Day-to-Day Cybersecurity careers attract thousands of newcomers each year, drawn by the perception o...
Remote Work Security: Protecting Company Data When Everyone’s Working From Anywhere The rapid shift to remote work has permanently altered how organiz...
When Good Employees Make Bad Security Decisions: Understanding Human Error Most security incidents don’t start with a criminal mastermind or sophistic...
Containing a Security Breach: Understanding Your Options When Systems Are Compromised The moment a security breach is detected, every second counts. H...