Cybersecurity

This post gives a succinct overview of in-demand job roles in IT and cybersecurity. Key job responsibilities, skills, and certifications for the following IT and cybersecurity roles are covered: System Administrator, Network Administrator, Incident Responder, Penetration Tester, Cloud Engineer, Cybersecurity Manager, and Privacy Analyst. You may also be interested in IT career paths – everything you […]

Demand for information security specialists has soared in the last decade due to increasing rates of cybercrime. There is a severe shortage of talent for entry-level information security analyst positions. But trying to break into information security can seem like an overwhelming endeavor. This post introduces the three IT infrastructure foundation areas and the two

This post discusses the Security Operations Center (SOC) career path. First, the SOC unit composition and technologies are discussed. Then the SOC team member roles and responsibilities, skills/qualifications, and certifications are discussed. Finally, training resources for SOC careers are suggested. You may also be interested in IT career paths – everything you need to know. What

This post discusses Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) in the context of IT governance and cybersecurity. The GRC approach to managing cybersecurity takes a risk-based approach to managing risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of valued enterprise information assets. This discussion covers the ins and outs of the GRC cybersecurity career path –

IT career paths – everything you need to know to plan, kick-start, and level up your IT career: job roles, job titles, specializations, skills, certifications, salaries, and training resources, from entry level positions to senior level positions. You may also be interested in The Security Operations Center (SOC) career path. IT industry employers Getting into

My uOttawa PhD thesis exploring ethical hacking teaching practices in Canadian higher education, completed in 2020 at uOttawa engineering (the PhD in DTI uOttawa Program), contributed a set of implementable policy recommendations to inform effective ethical hacking teaching practices in computer science, computer engineering, and software engineering undergraduate programs – spanning instruction (approach), curricula content (what professional ethical hacking skills

This is a discussion of what do ethical hackers do. The discussion focuses on key practices, responsibilities, and roles of professional ethical hackers. It is based on work I completed in a uOttawa PhD thesis (2020) on the topic of ethical hacking sociotechnology. Key practices of ethical hackers include vulnerability scanning, vulnerability assessment (identifying/listing known software vulnerabilities), penetration