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Tips for Certified Cybersecurity Professionals to Find Jobs
I share three methods to empower you to find your ideal cybersecurity job, leveraging your CISSP (or any other) cybersecurity certification.
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LinkedIn Tips for a Better Cybersecurity Job
Land a new, exciting, and better cybersecurity role by enhancing your LinkedIn profile with these supercool tips.
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Hacking Medical Devices for Profit and Terror
Covers background on why medical device security is something to pay attention to, the four attack objectives, and solutions.
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Cybersecurity Risk Needs to be Simplified
Complexity is the enemy of execution. Unnecessary complication is tied to ego & lack of clarity. In cybersecurity everything is overly complicated.
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Questions to Ask a vCISO
Many companies rush into finding fractional vCISO services and end up with a relationship they did not expect. Ask the right questions first.
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Top 10 Largest Healthcare Data Breaches by Number of Records Stolen
Healthcare data breaches have increased in both scale and regularity during the last decade, with the worst affecting up to 80 million people.
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Understanding the 6 Human Needs To Become a Better Technical Leader
Most leaders fail by trusting that intelligence alone can resolve issues. We forget we are working with people who, just like us, have needs
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Explanation of Cybersecurity Hashing and Collisions
This post is a transcript of Christian Espinosa's explanation of cybersecurity hashing and collisions, including an MD5 collision demo.
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Explanation of the Cybersecurity CIA Triad
This post is a transcript of Christian Espinosa's explanation of the cybersecurity CIA triad including the opposite, DAD.
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Black Box Penetration Testing Explained
This post is a transcript of Christian Espinosa's explanation of Black Box Penetration Testing and how White, Gray, and Black relate.
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Gray Box Penetration Testing Explained
This post is a transcript of Christian Espinosa's explanation of Gray Box Penetration Testing and how White, Gray, and Black relate.
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White Box Penetration Testing Explained
This post is a transcript of Christian Espinosa's explanation of White Box Penetration Testing and how White, Gray, and Black relate.
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How Your Ego Impacts Your Life
There are ways to control your ego (not your amigo). If you manage your ego you will live a much happier, healthier life.
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How Emotional States Can Slow Down and Speed Up Time
When we learn how emotions affect how we perceive time, we can easily control how we feel and perceive time.
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The Importance of Acknowledgment and Appreciation
Whether it is for ourselves or the people around us, acknowledgment can do wonders. Learn to acknowledge yourself and your team by reading more.
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Neural Pathway Highways and Ruts: Change Your Habits
When I discovered it’s possible for our brains to create new pathways, I recognized this can improve a person’s behavior, health, and mindset.
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Finding Your Purpose In Life: Understanding The 7 Levels Deep Exercise
The concept of purpose is a very common theme in modern society. One of the many ways to find purpose is the 7 Levels Deep Exercise.
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Awareness: Models of the World
Being an effective leader requires many things. Aside from understanding our own skills and capabilities, we need to exert time and effort to understand
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The Power of Questions
There are many ways to approach a problem. We often get caught up thinking about answers when we should be looking for the right question.
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What is Congruence?
Is it possible for us to be in touch with what we really feel? In this post, I explain the importance of congruence how we can use it to be fulfilled.
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Empathy vs. Sympathy
Empathy is to feel and connect with people, while sympathy drives disconnection. Empathizing is being together with the person in the dark so they are not alone while sympathizing is saying “Too bad!” from afar.
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How to Develop Soft Skills in Your Cybersecurity Team
Cybersecurity roles are highly technical, so why should you care about soft skills? For any technical or non-technical position human interaction is vital.
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Are You Effectively Motivating Cybersecurity Professionals?
Motivation is a very personal and subjective thing. What motivates one person may not the next. How leaders inspire teams isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach.
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Adapting in Cybersecurity: Why Agility Matters
Adapting in cybersecurity and being agile have long been hallmarks of the field. After all, there’s always a new threat or risk, so the industry is certainly not static.
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