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Blue Teamers are the first (and sometimes last) line of defense in the ongoing cyber war. This place is to chat out detection strategies, complain about SIEMs, compare SOAR playbooks, or post mean memes about the Red Team.

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xavier@infosec.pub

Introduce yourself! (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by xavier@infosec.pub to c/blueteam@infosec.pub

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Hey everyone! Since we're creating a new community here, I'd love to hear who's here.

I've been doing security for a bit over 30 years now. Made it up to a divisional CISO, then climbed back down the ladder to find a good work/life balance. Currently part of the security leadership team at a large US bank. I run a couple of teams right now, including a firewall policy engineering team and a production support center of excellence. I'm looking forward to seeing what type of community we can build here.

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[–] gepandz@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

In professional IT since '06, but I've been playing with (and fixing) computers since playing with my dad's Timex Sinclair at the age of two. I'm a generalist who focuses mainly in OSes and automation, but I've had experience working in databases, mainframe performance tuning, security, cloud infrastructure, pretty much anything but web front-ends outside of tweaking a really basic Livejournal page's HTML. 😂

I've gotten as high as a domain and solutions architect; my three domains were Servers (Linux), Security, and Automation/SOA/DevOps (yes, I was a DevOps Architect, as much of an antipattern as that is... I didn't make the titles! 😅). Currently looking for a new SRE/DevOps/DevSecOps gig after getting let go during some layoffs recently.

As far as InfoSec is concerned, I take a very strong "Security is everyone's responsibility" approach, since it's us humans against the machines and "bad guys." Even a newbie can pull a Cliff Stoll and say, "Huh, that's funny." We need to band together in community, so I'm hopeful this will be a net-positive.