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The Hacker Mind: Shattering InfoSec's Glass Ceiling

ForAllSecure

Booth babes and rampant sexism were more of a problem in infosec in the past. I went to Black Hat in 2000. And I always want it to be in technology or computer science in the choice but I could very easily do like electrical engineering or any other engineering discipline. That is, until Chenxi Wang spoke up. So I learned.

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2021 Hispanic Heritage Month Pt. 1: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage and Hope

McAfee

He recognized my passion for infosec (it wasn’t called cyber back then) and provided me with the support needed to make my ideas and projects a reality. Thanks to him I was able to co-found one of the first infosec consulting businesses in Spain in 2000, and I’m still very grateful for that opportunity. it’s on LinkedIn too).

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Weaving strategies with policies

Notice Bored

Globalization' is not just about establishing a widespread physical presence and brands: it's also about harnessing a widely distributed and culturally diverse workforce, harnessing technology to link, leverage and exploit the very best of the best. What about the technology risks, not least our ever-increasing dependence on the Internet?

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Top Web Application Firewall (WAF) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

At the same time, WAF technology is increasingly a part of more comprehensive security solutions like next-generation firewalls (NGFW), unified threat management (UTM), and more. From the 1998 MIT Entrepreneurship Competition to today, Akamai Technologies is now a top provider of WAF solutions. Microsoft Azure. Signal Sciences.

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On Detection: Tactical to Functional

Security Boulevard

Out-Minidump is a PowerShell script written by Matt Graeber that leverages a technology called “reflection” to allow direct, in-memory, Win32 function calls from PowerShell. To help make this idea concrete, we can analyze two tools which are literally different, but functionally the same. Yale University Press. [2]: 2]: Atkinson, Jared C.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: DEF CON turns 30 This year what began simply as a going away party for a coworker has since evolved over the decades into an annual summer tradition for InfoSec leaders in Las Vegas, which now includes other events such as besides Las Vegas, Diana is known as hackers summer camp. And … you won’t be disappointed.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Ethical Hacking

ForAllSecure

He also talks about the future generation of hacking, what motivates young people today to think outside the box in a world where infosec is increasingly becoming vocational and expected. Vamosi: There’s also a list of words commonly used in infosec that are being challenged. Vamosi: Hackers. Yes, we show you know this.

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