EC Writeup

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“you have to be in tech or else your toes will fall off” “you have to be ethical or else you will be in jail”

presenters: mercer: business side tomasz: fbi agent, catching people, ethical side nzeata: usd professor, curriculum side, military background in cybersecurity

question to panelists:

1. what is a real world case you’ve worked on or studied?
   • FBI: checking out and finding mistake that professional made
   • powershell data scraper to find data left on systems
2. what are the biggest cybersecurity threats today?
   • ransomware, foreign adversary threats
   • ai created zero days
   • phishing
3. how do ethical hackers help organizations strengthen their security
   • emulate real attacks, ethical hackers are actually trying to hack in to emulate real attackers
   • penetration testing
4. what to do
   • cybersecurity is securing IT, learn IT
   • soft skills
5. what are challenges you faced?
   • explaining to people with no knowledge
   • stressful environment, working with little resources
6. what trends do you see in cybersecurity?
   • specialization, specific device security rather than general
   • penetration testing with AI
   • entities now prioritizing cybersecurity
7. how do cybersecurity professionals prepare for constrantly evolving threats?
   • network
   • stay informed and be curious
   • stay aware of existing environment