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Options & Getting Started
Balaji Rajasekaran
Cyber Security Solutions Architect

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About me
 12+ years of experience in IT.
 Worked in Zoho, Netsurion, Trustwave and BT
 Experience in following areas of Cybersecurity
 Security Operations
 Threat hunting
 Product/Solution Designing & Implementing
 Consultant/Presales & Support
 Vulnerability Assessment
 Risk Analysis

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What’s ahead?
 Why cybersecurity?
 What’s missing?
 CyberSec Roles
 Breaking down the roles
 Getting started
 Preparing yourself
 Further reading

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Why Cybersecurity?
Source: Cybersecurityventures.com

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Why Cybersecurity? (contd.)
Source: Cybersecurityventures.com

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What’s missing?
 Skills gap - Less skilled people for more jobs
 Retaining people is hard
 Less CyberSec specific curriculum
 Less awareness

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CyberSec Roles
Security
Analyst
Penetration
Tester
Security
Architect
Forensics
Analyst
Security
Auditor
CISO

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CyberSec Roles – Security Analyst
 Incident analysis
 Threat hunting
 Vulnerability Analysis
 Compliance reporting
 Incident response

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CyberSec Roles – Penetration Tester
 White hat hacking
 Finding gaps
 Break into network
 Analyze security measures and report
 Can work independently - Bug Bounty $$$$

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CyberSec Roles – Penetration Tester
Social Engineering

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CyberSec Roles – Security Architect
 Designing security solutions and framework
 Identify new security requirements
 Tune existing security controls
 Closing the gaps

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CyberSec Roles – Forensics Analyst
 Recover and examine evidence
 Prepare reports based on evidence
 Work with law enforcement
 Maintain chain of custody

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CyberSec Roles – Security Auditor
 Ensuring organization are adhering rules.
 Assess the security risks and report it.
 Recommends standards and practices.
 Work with top management for remediation measures.

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CyberSec Roles – CISO
 Top management role in cyber security.
 Heads all department in security and decision maker.
 Identifies security objectives and metrics.
 Managing Incident Response plan.

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Getting started
 Strong Basics
 Networking, OS, Cryptography
 Decide between security analyst/ penetration tester.
Security
Analyst
Penetration
Tester
• Big data analysis
• SIEM - Splunk, Qradar, ArcSight
• Scripting (Python, JavaScript, SQL)
• Know the tools

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Getting started (contd.)
 Free resources
 TryHackMe
 Hackthebox
 Cyberdefenders
 Cybrary
 US Department of Homeland Security
 Open Security Training
 Heimdal Security
 Sans Cyber Aces Online
 Paid resources
 Udemy
 Future Learn
 Coursera
 Pluralsight

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Preparing yourself
 Make a plan.
 Strong Basics.
 Set up a lab and start experimenting.
 Effective use of LinkedIn, Twitter, Blog.
 Start planning a cyber sec final year project.
 Stay updated.

18. One more thing

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One more thing
Password hygiene
 Stop using one password for multiple accounts.
 Start using a password manager. (Bitwarden, Keepass)
 Enable 2FA wherever available.
 Subscribe to data breach notifications from https://haveibeenpwned.com

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Further reading
 https://securityintelligence.com
 https://thehackernews.com
 https://security.stackexchange.com
 https://osintframework.com
 https://github.com/onlurking/awesome-infosec
 https://github.com/showcases/security

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Questions?