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1. Include the name, job title, company name, and location of where you work
2. What does it mean to be a business professional?
3. What is your job and its duties? 4 What is the dress code? are tattoos and body piercing acceptable? (Please be specific if possible)
4. What kind of computer programs do you use?
5. List main types of devices that you use each day to be connected to the digital world and how much estimated time they spend on each device. (Includes all technology such as computers, tablets, smart phones, Fitbit, smart watches, voice activated devices, etc.)

Hello! I’m working on transitioning and trying to use my resources better, I barely use Reddit but it’s a super good source of information and conversations I either haven’t had the chance to have, or just didn’t think about it.

I’m pivoting from customer service/sales to Cybersecurity. I took a 6 week class a while back on the NIST RMF process from the viewpoint of an ISSO, learned some basic networking, got experience with some documents like the SSP, a CUI SSP, POA&M, practiced writing risk registers & doing risk assessments as well as control selection, and did some basic networking and malware practice to learn how some of that stuff works. I’ve also taken Gerald Auger’s GRC masterclass, and am going through a skillternship course on Udemy focused on GRC projects from the lens of a GRC analyst. I haven’t taken a bootcamp for anything after the initial class because I genuinely like researching this stuff myself, but have admittedly spun myself in a circle trying to figure out what I need to master to REALLY make myself a good candidate for a GRC role to get in and work my way up.

I like the technical stuff too though, so I’ve done a little training on tryhackme and portswigger as well. In my day to day I’m vice president of an ERG, I do a lot of event planning and projects for my day to day job as well - I’m currently a pricing analyst who writes contracts for safety services in the manufacturing space, and I have projects on merging contracts types, improving training, and working with other teams to build automation, just because I see a problem and try to build a way to solve it.

I have a plan to go through the masterclass one more time to refresh as well as complete the Udemy course to build some more projects and get out there. I’m looking forward to connecting and talking with you all more! Please feel free to reach out as well, I’m always looking forward accountability partners, mentors, and friends in general that are on the same path or have walked it before.

I just started a new job at an IT MSP - I have already noticed so many security issues with our clients, phishing emails out the wazoo with no filters, networks without a domain, unhealthy client systems, etc. For reference I worked in the DoD IT enterprise world for 6 years so these are all huge concerns for me. Everything is so much more efficient in the civilian IT world which I like, but it seems like companies just don't care about security unless its too late. I've written reports straight up to these companies telling them their vulnerabilities, I even referenced the stats of how dangerous breaches can be and how they often cripple companies. Noone seems to care. Thoughts?

Hey friends! I'm looking for some advice if anyone would be so kind to help me out.

I currently work in operations and have 10+ years experience in ops while also having lots of diversified experience in project management, product management, and BSA. At this point I've climbed up to being a VP of Ops and, while it's cool some days, most days I'm just over it. But, I still love tech and know that's where my heart lies.

I'm looking at different backend roles, DevOps/Cloud Engineering (with the goal of moving to Architecture with my BSA background already in place) or Backend Engineering. I don't code now (I can read a couple coding languages when needed, but it's not something I *do*), but obviously I'd be willing to learn to make the pivot.

Would anyone be willing to give me some advice? I don't want to go down a whole learning path for Cloud just to wish I picked a coding language and went Backend, or vice-versa. (Or, if there's a secrete third/fourth option other people love, please let me know that one too!!)

Recently I interviewed for a job that was lowballing for the pay. I completed an internship and just wanted full time experience so I was going to accept it just for that. They ended up ghosting me and I felt a bit down on my luck but then realized that probably wouldn’t have been a good idea anyways. Not even a month later I received another offer with better pay and it was full time as well. Just posting this to give some people hope and to also say that every opportunity is not always a good one and to be patient! You’ll get in where you belong!

Hi everyone, how’s it going?
I’m a bit confused and need some advice about my career path: Cybersecurity or Full-Stack Development?

I’m currently a second-year cybersecurity student in college, but I’ve been studying both cybersecurity and web development since high school (around 4+ years). At this point, I’d say I’m mid-level in both fields.

Now that it’s summer break in my country, I’m not sure what I should focus on:

Cybersecurity: I’ve already found some critical/high vulnerabilities in government and organization websites, so my strong point is in web security testing. However, I’m still weak in areas like cryptography and binary exploitation.

Web development: I’m a bit stronger here. I know backend frameworks like Flask/Django, and I only need to learn a front-end framework (React.js / Next.js). Once I do that, I feel like I’ll be ready for hire since I already have projects built.

To give some context, in cybersecurity I even developed a Python tool that uses covert channels to create a shell for RCE on devices (so I also have projects there). But in web dev, I’ve built full-stack applications too.

The problem is: I love both fields equally. Which one should I focus on now? Which one do you think could get me a job faster?

ISC2 released this data about a month ago, I want to say. This distribution is insane lol. With all the talk of them potentially releasing an AI cert, what is the point if it is likely only going to get like 5K holders or something. Don’t see the incentive.

I literally wanted to JUST make a restore point, I have spent at least 100 USD on getting this machine inspected, only to be told nothin is wrong you just have to have the fans on high for a machine like this because default fan speed is too low, and keep the computer elevated off flat surface for better air flow.

And yet here I'am months later with the same error code that says hey you might have something faulty on your machine, and now I can't make a recovery state, because something is corrupt despite this machine working just fine.

What exactly should I do at this point? Am I better off just having a different hard drive set as the C Drive, would that even fix anything, how can I even guarantee same issue wont spew out if I did a drive clone?

Can I get a (cheap) remote I.T. company to just virtually inspect my machine.

This is just too much unnecessary stress the damn thing's not even dysfunctional I just can't make a restore point and the fan HAS to be loud.

Asus Predator 16, O.S.: Win 11.

Hi all,

I have an upcoming interview with Microsoft for a Technical Support Engineering (IC3) position. Just wanted to see if anyone has any info or tips if they have done this interview before.

This is the specific posting: Technical Support Engineer | Microsoft Careers

Thank you in advance!

BOTTOM LINE: I'm looking to buy a wireless AP that will let me establish two classes of wifi service: bandwidth-limited (maybe 1 Mbps) and unrestricted. The limited service will be the default for any new device that connects to the AP, while the unrestricted can be manually applied to a few select devices, a set-it-and-forget-it configuration. I'm hoping for the $100 price range, wifi 6/7 not required.

BACKGROUND: We don't have commercial internet at my office. The mobile reception in the office is non-existent, in the lounge is marginal, but on the lounge patio is decent. We're using a Jetpack MiFi 8800L LTE hotspot right now to provide connectivity to a point-of-sale for our snack bar, but even that isn't reliable right now so we're looking into getting a Netgear LM1200 to keep inside with a MIMO antenna running outside where it can get steady service. The office is also going to install some game console to host gaming events, so the network burden is only going to be increased.

Since the uplink/downlink should be much improved with the new modem and antenna, I want to add on an AP that can provide wifi to people on their phones hanging out in the lounge so they don't have to go outside to get reliable service. However, I have been given the requirement that the mobile phone traffic not interfere with the service to the PoS and the game consoles, so it will need robust QoS features to ensure that. I've looked at review lists and individual product pages for numerous APs, but I don't see QoS controls listed on any of them. I'm sure that there's a few different strategies that would work (VLANs, split SSIDs, guest network, default connection profiles), but across all the different AP models I've configured, I've never seen the same QoS controls twice.

We don't need wifi 7 or even wifi 6 since the LTE uplink maxes out at 150 Mbps and wifi bandwidth is going to be throttled anyway; I'm just trying to find a cheap AP that will offer the kind of throttling controls I need. I just can't seem to find any documentation on what the throttling controls will be without buying.