Thanks for doing these. We're here, this community is growing, and your encouragement and nudging is good ๐
biptoot
joined 1 year ago
I could use a resume review.
I'm a security architect in the public sector, state government. I started as an entry level sysadmin around 2000. I'm being strongly encouraged to apply for the CISO position here. I'm 46, and currently lead a team of 3.
Every time I apply for the private sector, including lower level jobs, it's crickets. If I apply for govt work, I get people banging on my door.
How do I get a resume review, or someone to point out what I need to make the jump from govt to private sector?
Always love these kinds of questions, and love how you are working to build this community.
I work for a government agency as a deputy ciso, and I'm putting together a decision package for legislature to request new staff. I'm looking for five new members of my team, which would slightly double our size. It's a very long process, which involves a lot of capacity planning, reading strategic plans and tying it to things other people have talked about, demonstrating work bottlenecks through metrics from our soc, and leveraging relationships and capital Goodwill that I've built over the last couple years.
Cross your fingers for me.
This happens to a lot of bands
This is excellent, very useful for continuing to make images accessible on the fediverse
t every company should have? Is there even a frame
I was the lone security person there for a bit. Now there's 4 of us. I broke it down into two risks:
service / system outage data breach / loss
The way I approached shoring up defenses was with specific activities each week:
vulnerability remediation audit & compliance incident response governance & policy security awareness program
It might help to think of things in a maturity model. Putting in a SEIM is a big job, and maybe more appropriate for when the security program at your org has matured more. What you can do is spend time working on the other stuff - what's your endpoint protection? What compliance requirements do you have? How's your inventory & asset management? What's policy look like? Do your AD accounts all make sense? What's the password policy? Do you have any old service accounts?
Picking little stuff allows you to make progress, and gets you ready to move to the bigger things. A mentor once told me to use a checklist (for life in general, but applies to cyber):
1 Did they ask you for help 2 Do you have it to give 3 Have you done enough for now
Good luck!
Usually labeled as P series.
This is how I do my home system, Dell r710xd I believe. I bought it used via craigslist and I think it came from the local power company. In the States we have government surplus sites that have stuff cheap.
You can mount a rack mount system vertically on the side of the wall, hanging down with a couple of shelf brackets.
This was great! Love bikini kill, nice to see a Ska cover :)
If it's #2, I tend to scoop (with a plastic dog bag, I don't use one of those ) pretty much right away, tie it off & put it in the trash. I'm with @iamericandre@lemmy.world, changing to wood cut down on smell quite a bit. I change it out once a week now.
There's wood pellets in there now :) Big fan of wood pellets since 2020!
Also off work today, so it's pet-project time: I have some scripts that collect local housing rental prices. I've been collecting this information in a sqlite db using python webscraping libraries, so I can chart the effects of gentrification and homelessness in my (small, rural) community.