por Ricki Burke
In this episode, we catch up with Abbas Kudrati. Abbas has an impressive career which has seen him work around the world and is now operating as a Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Microsoft. Abbas started off his career in a technical role and then progressed to working as a CISO for various organisations. He is incredibly generous with his time and gives back to the community in many ways, including as a part-time Lecturer for "Masters in Cyber Security" program at La Trobe University. In our conversation, Abbas gives practical advice for others working in technical roles that aspire to work in a CISO position.
We catch up with Casey Ellis, founder of the number one crowdsourced security platform, Bugcrowd. Through our conversation, we go through the journey of starting a business, moving countries, multimillion-dollar raises and more. Casey also shares his advice to future founders.
Ian shares the insight of someone that has transitioned from working a Recruitment Consultant to General Manager of XZ Security, one of New Zealand’s leading penetration testing companies. He talks about his journey into security, discusses the skills required for a non-technical person working in a security company and what his company look for when hiring.
This episode is with Francisco “Disco” Morales who works in Talent Acquisition at Canva. Disco has helped Canva hire over 100 people and prior to this had a background in agency recruitment. He shares the views of someone working in a team that receive over 50,000 jobs applications a year. Disco recommends some tips that can help someone standout ad improve their chances when applying for a role.
This episode is with Cairo Malet. Cairo is a Cyber Risk Advisor working in Cyber Security Risk and Advisory for a major mining company. That isn't where her career started and we get to hear Cairo's journey from barista to working in an organisation that could have her performing security assessments on mining sites and ships.
This episode is with Louis Nyffenegger, founder of PentesterLab, one the best training grounds for newbies and experienced professionals to enhance their web application security skills. Louis shares his story of how he got into security and then what it took for him to convert a passion into a business whilst working as a Security Engineer at Fitbit.
This episode is with Chris Rock. Chris has been active in the security industry for over the last 25+ years. Chris presented I will Kill you at Defcon 23 and How to Overthrow a Government at Defcon 24. Chris ran a security penetration testing company for 10 years. Chris Rock is now CISO and co-founder of SIEMonster. SIEMonster was started in 2015 by a team of hackers. After years working in penetration testing, they realized that there was a gap in the SIEM market for an affordable scalable open-source alternative to existing solutions. Chris talks about his journey from an 11-year-old hacker to working in banks, pentesting around the world and starting his own company which is now global.