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How to Get Cybersecurity Experience When Nobody Will Hire You
Read More: How to Get Cybersecurity Experience When Nobody Will Hire YouI see a lot of advice telling aspiring cybersecurity professionals to build a home lab. I also see a lot of candidates who built elaborate labs but still cannot…
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You Have Security+. Why Can’t You Get a Cybersecurity Job?
Read More: You Have Security+. Why Can’t You Get a Cybersecurity Job?You followed the advice. You studied for Security+, you passed the exam, you added it to your resume and LinkedIn profile. You started applying for entry-level cybersecurity positions, confident…
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Nobody Owns AI Governance at Your Company. That’s the Problem
Read More: Nobody Owns AI Governance at Your Company. That’s the ProblemNobody Owns AI Governance at Your Company. That’s the Problem. Ask most organizations who owns AI governance, and you’ll get a pause before the answer. That pause is the…
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Cybersecurity, IT, or Computer Science? How to Choose the Right Bachelor’s Degree
Read More: Cybersecurity, IT, or Computer Science? How to Choose the Right Bachelor’s DegreeIf you’re trying to break into cybersecurity, you’ve probably run into this question everywhere: which bachelor’s degree should you actually get? A Bachelor’s in Cybersecurity? Information Technology? Computer Science?…
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What a Technical Interview Scenario Question Actually Looks Like
Read More: What a Technical Interview Scenario Question Actually Looks LikeIf you’ve never sat through a security interview, the phrase “scenario-based question” probably sounds vague and a little scary. Nobody explains what these questions actually look like until you’re…
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Which Cybersecurity Certification to Get First (A Real Decision Framework)
Read More: Which Cybersecurity Certification to Get First (A Real Decision Framework)Every week I get some version of the same question: “Should I get Security+ or something else first?” And every week I resist giving the one-line answer, because the…
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The Biggest Access Risk Isn’t Employee Terminations. It’s Internal Transfers
Read More: The Biggest Access Risk Isn’t Employee Terminations. It’s Internal TransfersEvery security team I’ve worked with has a tight, well-rehearsed process for offboarding. Someone resigns, gets terminated, or retires, HR files a ticket, IT disables the account, access reviews…
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The Most Expensive Part of a Penetration Test Happens After the Report Is Delivered
Read More: The Most Expensive Part of a Penetration Test Happens After the Report Is DeliveredAsk most organizations what a penetration test costs, and they’ll quote you the invoice from the testing firm. That number is almost never the real cost. The real cost…
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Building a LinkedIn Profile That Gets Noticed With Zero Experience
Read More: Building a LinkedIn Profile That Gets Noticed With Zero ExperienceA blank work history is the thing most career changers and new graduates assume will sink their LinkedIn profile before a recruiter ever gets far enough to actually consider…
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Most Tabletop Exercises Are Theater. Here’s How to Tell, and What to Do Instead
Read More: Most Tabletop Exercises Are Theater. Here’s How to Tell, and What to Do InsteadAsk most security teams whether they run tabletop exercises, and the answer is usually yes. Ask what actually happened during the last one, and the answer gets a lot…
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