"It's okay to be scared, but do it anyway"
Zabrina McIntyre on imposter syndrome as women in the work place
I was very curious about the various applications of a cybersecurity degree in the professional world, and was excited when I saw the Cybersecurity Panel that DubsTech was hosting. The panelists were Masako Long, Zabrina McIntyre, Andrea Frost, Kim Huynh, and Remi Cohen. They were all women working in very diverse sectors of cybersecurity from sales, to regulatory compliance, to penetration testing and threat detection. I came away super inspired by the stories they shared about their journeys and their unique experiences as women in cybersecurity.
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Podcasts
- SANS Internet Storm Center
- Gimlet - Reply All
- OWASP Top 10
- Conferences --> topic sampler
- Women in Cybersecurity Conference
- Logic classes
- Comparative government classes --> different ways systems are structured can be translated into security systems
- Communications classes
- Over the Wire: https://overthewire.org/wargames/
- Cybersecurity CTF (Capture the Flag) Questions
- Basics of Cybersecurity: https://www.cyberaces.org/
- Communication is an important skill to have even in cybersecurity, being able to explain ideas
- Psychological perspective of cybersecurity --> attackers usually try to find the easiest way in and the most problematic threats are those that could have easily been prevented
- Phishing -- you lock your doors, but your windows are always open
- Vast skillsets -- coding, reverse engineering, forensics, technical coding, marketing
- STAY CURIOUS, learn about what is interesting to you