A Year Of Gaining Superpowers - SANS Pen Test HackFest Summit 2018
SANS Summit schedule: http://www.sans.org/u/DuS
Presenter:
Tarah M. Wheeler (@tarah), Senior Director, Data Trust & Threat and Vulnerability Management at Splunk
Technical leaders have a responsibility to stay technical, and the work we do in vertical communications sometimes means that we get pulled away from actual technical work. Let’s talk about how to stay technical in information security, where there’s a huge premium on interpersonal communications skills—so much so that maintaining your skills takes a back seat. If you want to rise in infosec, you too will have to step away from the keyboard—but not all the way, ever, if you want to be brilliant at your work and still capable of speaking on, much less understanding, solid technical research at the major conferences. We’ll discuss and show how to get involved in three real-world examples: CTFs, real directed offensive and defensive security studies, and participating in open projects.