Monday, May 22, 2017

7 Pieces Of Career Advice To Cybersecurity Newbies From Renowned Experts

If you’re fresh in the cyber industry — but you dream BIG — we’ve got something that might change (or even skyrocket) your career. Paula interviewed 7 renowned specialists, from IT experts to headhunters, so that YOU can get the best insights.


You know THAT kind of advice that you wish you had heard earlier in your life? Well, if you’re fresh in the cybersecurity industry — but you dream BIG — we’ve got something that might change (or even skyrocket) your career. Paula Januszkiewicz (a CEO of CQURE, Penetration Tester, Enterprise Security MVP) interviewed 7 renowned specialists, from IT experts to headhunters, so that YOU can get the best insights. Here are 7 pieces of advice that will help you grow from a newbie to a Cybersecurity Pro in high demand. Enjoy!

1.Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier
Internationally renowned security 
technologist. Called a “security 
guru” by The Economist. The 
author of 13 books, including Data
and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to
Collect Your Data and Control 
                                          Your World.

“They should study with their passion. The way you have a 
great career in technology, is you do what you’re passionate 
about.There is so much demand, there so many opportunities, 
there is so many options. Don’t study the thing they tell you to, 
study what stimulates your passions. That’s where you will be 
the happiest, that’s how you find the best work.”
2. Jeffrey Hicks
Jeffrey Hicks
IT veteran with over 25 years of 
experience, multi-year recipient 
of the Microsoft MVP Award in 
Windows PowerShell.


“I’m going to give them actually two little pieces 
of advice. One is: turn around and share your 
knowledge with the younger person, not only 
because that’s the right thing to do but also in 
the fact of trying to formulate your thoughts. 
“Okay, how am I going to communicate or 
share what I know?” You may realize, “Oh, 
maybe I don’t know that as well as I should. 
I need to go back and brush up.” You learn 
a bit more in trying to teach someone, you 
have no choice but to really learn it yourself.

That would be number one. The second is: 
you just have to take this idea of using it 
every day to the next level. You need to 
be the person who is creating the DSC 
configurations, and the PowerShell tools 
that you’re using to monitor servers to 
provide the forensic analysis if you’ve 
been compromised.

You’ll need to learn new things like the
.NET framework. You’ll need to learn 
some of the advanced. You need to start
thinking. Go to some of the secret hacker
conferences and learn the bad ways and
find ways, “Okay, how can I do that in 
PowerShell?” Try to be more proactive.”

3. Wally Mead

Wally Mead
Program Manager at Cireson, 
Configuration Manager expert
& community evangelist.


“If they’re a young, new person, then they 
probably got a lot of the skill set which is 
mobile, because they live on their mobile 
devices all day long and that’s the way the 
world’s going, so they got a great start there. 
But as far as the rest in Configuration 
Manager space, it’s spending some time 
with the solution. Again, whether it’s training, 
or whether it’s attending a training class or 
self-learning on the TechNet Virtual labs or 
Microsoft Virtual Academy sessions that 
they have out there.”

4. Sami Laiho

Sami Laiho

Leading Windows OS & 
Security expert in the world, 
Senior Technical Fellow, 
MVP, Best speaker in all 
TechEd’s 2014.

“First of all, you have to learn Windows 
 Internals. 
Take Windows internals training. That’s the 
core that you will then build on by maybe 
getting good security training from some other 
companies. So there’s a good base. Build on 
the base, learn the basics. Remember it still 
takes 100 people at Microsoft to know 
everything about Windows, so if you believe 
you know everything, forget that disbelief 
and just learn more.”

5. Jennifer Minella

Jenifer Minella

VP of Engineering & Security 
Consultant. Mindfulness Evangelist


“It varies so much from company to company. 
We were using some examples, and I’d asked 
specifically my organization what were some 
science-based things we could do to kind of 
vet and get the right candidates in for what 
we were looking for. She brought up some 
good points because she said, “Take the IT 
stuff out of it. Let’s talk about just the skill 
set you need.” So the conversation was 
really very specific to what skill set do 
you need for that role or that company. 
Because different company’s cultures 
are different, the job descriptions are 
different.”

6.Uma Gupta

Uma Gupta

Professor of Business at the 
State University of New York. 
Business and leadership consultant.

“I think the skills when you look at it, it runs 
across industries, right? Somehow we have 
made IT be something totally different from 
every other industry. But there’s a lot of 
common ground across industries. So, if I 
were having this conversation with a retail 
executive, what would they say? They would 
say, “Women should speak up more. Women 
should go after the really difficult strategic 
projects, not to be quiet and to sit down and 
wait to be asked”, right? To go out and to find 
the right mentor. As I said, excellence is an 
important thing. You have to be great at what 
you do. You have to be willing to reach out, 
you have to be willing to speak up.”

7.Bernard Layton

Bernard Layton

Stanton Chase Executive Recruiter



“I think they should get the educational 
background which is key and get the 
credential. They need to work to separate 
themselves from just the staff level capabilities 
and so ultimately good old fashioned hard work, 
put hours in it, and learning through experience
 and developing these experience.”

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