The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: A Career in Incident Response
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Incident response - security and operational - is a skillset necessary for every single role in the software value delivery chain. This month will be a single speaker on a topic we all experience in our careers but often never learn anything about (in school or on the job) formally! Things go wrong - it is how teams and organizations deal with failure (fault tolerance) that matters.
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: A Career in Incident Response
Cybersecurity incident response is an extraordinary career path: challenging, rewarding, lucrative, intense, exhausting! Join me for some triumphant and tragic stories, real-world insights into being an incident responder, suggestions and resources on pursuing a career in incident response, and "ask me anything" Q&A!
Biography
Patterson Cake has worked in cybersecurity for more than two decades, specializing in the development of incident-response teams, programs, and processes. He is currently the Director of Incident Response at Black Hills Information Security, holds more than twenty-five industry certifications, is a former SANS instructor, currently teaches for Antisyphon, and has trained law enforcement, military, and national cybersecurity organizations on four continents. Patterson created the "Incident Response Capabilities Matrix Model," developed "Rapid Triage Workflow" for IR investigations, is a prolific speaker, and is actively involved in the cybersecurity community.