The SynAckFinAck Podcast

People are finding out that moving things into the cloud isn't always the right answer.  Tom is an exceptional technologist and we discuss how to take the AI processing to the data when it may not be technically possible or feasible to push it to the cloud.  I have wanted to have him on the podcast for months and we were finally able to lock down a time to chat.  If you want to know where technology is going, this is a great episod...

In recent years, encryption has become an essential tool for cybersecurity and data protection. It’s also one of the most important aspects of any business today - especially when it comes to cloud databases. Encryption will protect your data from being stolen or intercepted by third parties and maintain your privacy by ensuring your information is only accessible by the intended recipient and not by anyone else.

There are many dif...

Thomas is the Director of Post Breach Remediation with Kivu consulting.  We have a great discussion about an incident we worked together and what happens after the breach.  

It's pretty interesting when big attacks happens, it's not always the company names you hear about in the news that are the responding teams. Companies like Kivu are brought in for some of the biggest breaches out there, many times by an insurance company, or o...

If you are thinking of starting a company or a new founder, you quickly learn that there are lots of things to do that don't involve working on your technology or your big idea.  It can quickly become a problem if you don't have the tools that you need to run your startup.

Greg Miaskiewicz started Capbase and solved the above problem after being a successful founder and seeing a bunch of issues that other founders have when startin...

I was thrilled to chat with Tim from Microshare.io about how he ended up in technology and what they are doing to protect IoT data.  

He was working on AI before it was a "thing" and has some amazing experience.  He talked about why it is a great idea to start out in a support role no matter what type of company you work for, and where the industry is going.

Enjoy this episode!

Tim's company Microshare.io:
https://www.microshare.io...

Chris has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and has worked at some of the biggest companies out there.  He works in the Office of the CTO at VMware. I really enjoyed this conversation and know you will too!

Chris shares some of the best ways to get into and learn cyber as well as what skills are necessary to work on to get ahead and succeed over time.

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophe...

You have Operational Technology in your environment and probably need to think about it a little bit.  I was lucky to chat with Kunle who is an expert not just in cybersecurity but also in OT Security.  In this episode he give great information on the differences between IT and OT and what you need to consider when protecting it.

Connect with Kunle:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kunle-adetoro/

Connect with Robert:
https://www.linkedi...

Great discussion with John about networking, cyber, and fundamental skills that are required to succeed in the space.  We also chatted about Cisco vs Juniper and why you would want to get certified in one vs the other.  

John is putting out some amazing content on youtube especially for those looking to get into the space.  

Aside from teaching a ton, he does some really cool stuff like break down job descriptions, and reviews cert...

Sanders watched the movie Hackers in middle school and knew he wanted to do that for a living.  We had a great conversation and discussed some tools that are relevant today that have been around for over 20 years that are still very relevant today and you should learn if you want to improve your security game.

As has been a theme with almost all of the people I've interviewed the topic of networking comes up and how it could have s...

In a number of conversations lately writing has been coming up as a critical skill to advance your career.  I've been trying to write daily for the last few years and improve that area.  I was lucky to have Richard Lowe come on the podcast this week.  He went from a tech career to a writing career and has great advice for anyone in technology wanting to move up.  You can contact Richard at the links below:

Richard Lowe on LinkedIn:
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If you want to get into cybersecurity, the military is a great route.  John went to the Navy, got a ton of training, his masters degree, and worked at Microsoft all while in the Navy!  Aside from the opportunity to serve your country, there are some great options available to have a career in cyber.  We discuss this and why he jumped out and started Breachbits.  His company is enabling organization who can't bring in one of the big...

It was awesome to spend some time with Bryce Webster-Jacobsen from Groupsense.  They are helping companies by finding bad things on the dark web.  I love how he took his background in education and transitioned it to be successful in a leading edge cyber security company.  You don't have to be a programmer or computer scientist to be successful in cyber and Bryce is a great example of that!

Bryce on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.c...

As I was re-listening to this podcast to make sure the audio is ok, I found myself saying over and over, oh that is GREAT information for someone getting into cyber.  Mark is the co-founder and COO at Alphawave and has a ton of experience responding to large incidents and running teams that do that.  I enjoyed chatting with him about what it takes to succeed in cyber and also why if you are in cyber you should learn jiu-jitsu!

Conn...

Welcome to the SynAckFinAck Podcast! Today I am having a conversation with Drew Goletz. Drew has been in E-Discovery for almost 15 years. He came in through the copy scan world. He first worked in litigation support. Then, shortly after Hurricane Katrina, scanning technology boomed and was the new thing. His career has progressed from paper to small native documents to larger files and now mobile for...

I've been wanting to have a recruiter on for a while and was excited when Sam agreed to come on the podcast and chat.  He is the head of Computer Vision and AI recruiting at Lawrence Harvey, one of the high end recruiting firms.  His team helps companies find data scientists and other very senior technology placements for companies ranging from startups to fortune 100 enterprises.

If you are in tech and looking to change gigs, how ...

Great chat with Lonnie Harris from Equifax.  Lonnie started out in engineering working on the Boeing 777 and then moved to Cisco and now is at Equifax.  Great insight into what skills people need in cyber and what people are looking for.

Also the best time is NOW to get into cyber.  

I enjoyed the conversation and know you will too!

If you have cloud/siem/cyber skills and are looking for a gig, Lonnie probably wants to hear from yo...

In this episode, I am happy to be joined by Dr. Bartley Richardson from NVIDIA to chat about GPU based data science and how to get ahead in cyber.  

I've worked in places where I've have to process ALOT of data whether it be network traffic or logs.  I've had problems with data that standard methodologies and hardware just can't scale to handle handle. 

Bartley and the team over at NVIDIA has been thinking about how to leverage the...