Cyber Work Infosec

Infosec and Cyber Work Hacks are here to help you pass the CEH, or Certified Ethical Hacker exam. For today’s Hack, Akyl Phillips, Infosec bootcamp instructor in charge of the CEH/Pentest+ dual-cert bootcamp, walks us through four sample CEH questions, explaining the logic behind each answer and discounting the wrong ones with explanations, allowing you to reach the right answer in a logical and stress-free way. This episode is a real eye-opener for aspiring red teamers, so keep it here for t...

Zarik Megerdichian, the co-founder of personal privacy controller company Loop8, joins me in breaking down the recent Roku breach, which landed hackers a whopping 15,000 users' worth of vital data. Megerdichian and I discuss the failings of the current data collection and storage model while moving to a model in which biometrics is the primary identification method, coupled with a system of contacts who can vouch for you in the event that your device is lost or stolen. It’s another interestin...

Today on Cyber Work, I’m very excited to welcome Debbie Reynolds, the Data Diva herself, to discuss data privacy. Reynolds developed a love of learning about data privacy since working in library science, and she took it through to legal technologies. She now runs her own data privacy consultancy and hosts the long-running podcast “The Data Diva Talks Privacy Podcast.” We talk about data privacy in all its complex, nerdy, and sometimes frustrating permutations, how GDPR helped bring Reynolds ...

Infosec and the Cyber Work Hacks podcast are here to help you pass the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) exam! So for today’s hack, we’re talking about bootcamps. The CEH exam, no matter how you slice it, is an exam that is the definition of the phrase, “It’s a marathon, not a sprint.” With 125 questions and four hours to answer them, there’s as much of a mental game at work here that’s much more than rote memorization of terms and tools. That’s why I wanted to get an insider’s look from Infosec...

Today on Cyber Work, my guest is Raj Ananthanpillai, CEO of Trua, a company that is steeped in the current issues around digital credentials and data privacy. As you’ve no doubt heard, AT&T reported a data breach that compromised the personal information of approximately 7.6 million users! Ananthanpillai discusses Trua’s mission to leave data thieves holding an empty treasure chest, discusses his past work in creating TSA PreCheck and gives a bunch of great ideas and advice for making sur...

Mark Toussaint of OPSWAT joins to talk about his work in securing operational technology, and specifically about his role as product manager. This is an under-discussed job role within security, and requires great technical expertise, intercommunication skills and the ability to carry out long term campaigns on a product from, as he put it, initial brainstorming scribblings on a cocktail napkin through the creation of the product, all the way to its eventual retirement. Learn what it takes to...