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Hey guys, this is Bruce and welcome to another podcast of pot of convo courses, where I'm gonna be talking to you. How to get in cyber security and how to market yourself. If you're interested in getting into a career field, that's gonna grow in the next five years, probably double to what it is right now, where you have job security and I've, I've never had to worry about whether or not I'm gonna get a job.
If you are wanting more job security, then this is a great feel to get in. And you're talking to somebody who who's been doing this for 20 years,  I'm speaking to you from inside the industry. All right. So if you have any questions on Facebook, on YouTube, on TikTok live on podcast, then this is a great question.
The time to ask any of your questions regarding it and cyber security. So let's keep it to that. I'm not interested in anything having to do. Anything except cyber security. So let's just keep it to cyber security questions. All right. That being said, let's get into this. If you didn't know, I am the owner and proprietor of combo courses.com.
It's a site where it teaches you how to do site, get into cybersecurity. And specifically my sub, where I'm the subject matter expert is something called security compliance, security compliance has to do with if you've ever gone to a bank, if you've ever used a retail, if you ever used a point of sale device, if you ever gotten a, a card from the DMV, like all of those things require something called.
security compliance that that's the rules and the regulations that go into an organization, cyber security. So not necessarily implementation of the cyber security, like firewalls or IPSS IDSS and all that kind of stuff. Not the technical implementation, but more like, how does this organization, whether it be a bank or your hospital, or your, or target or Walmart or whoever, how do they comply and keep security on their systems?
That's what I do. And that's what I teach people how to do. I've been doing this for a very long time, specifically for the government, the federal government, but I've also done it in the private sector and I've done it in for states. I've done it for a little bit for other countries when it pertained to the us.
So let's get into this. So we've got combo courses. I also wanted to tell you that I'm doing real steady podcasts on pod beam. If you're, if you wanna get some information on that just go to pod beam dot combo courses, dot pod beam.com. Enjoy me there. I'm doing lives every week. I'm putting out more content.
If, if if you prefer to listen to this, or if you're at your job and you wanna listen and learn and stuff, this is a great opportunity for you to do that. And I'm open to any kind of questions you have specifically to this to this genre, to this area of my area of expertise. And a lot of, one of the good things about this community is that if I don't know something, somebody in this community, isn't a subject matter expert on that thing.
And that's one of the things that I personally love about this community that we've been building. So let's get into this. I also wanna let you guys know, I have a book I'm gonna be breaking down and giving you a lot of the stuff that's in this book. Okay. So if you actually stay tuned for this, I'm gonna actually break down exactly how to mark yourself, how to get in this career path and how to level up if you happen to be an it person.
If you happen to be a, a cable jockey, a person who's laying cable for people doing internet stuff. If you happen to be in areas like healthcare, if you happen to be in stuff like banking, this is a really good opportunity for you to transition into a career field that pays better. That has more security and has a lot of opportunities for the next 20, 30 years to come because cyber security is not going anywhere.
Okay. And it's not all super technical. That's another MIS misconception about cyber security that I, that I like to dispel that myth. All right. So let's get into this. Let me show you guys what I've got going on. I've I'm writing a book right now that breaks down one of my main questions. So one of the main questions people ask me on TikTok on Facebook, on YouTube.
Everywhere is Bruce. How do I get into this career field? Like I've been trying for years, maybe I'm in it. Maybe I'm in the hospital. Maybe I'm I'm in healthcare, I'm in this other industry and I'm trying to get into break into cyber security. I'm trying to break into it. So what I'm doing, if I could actually switch this thing over, let me see.
So what I'm doing is a book where I'm gonna tell you how to get cyber security in it. This works also for any other career field as well, how to get into it.  and how to market yourself in, in this field. This is something that I've been using for years. This is not something that this is not theory for me.
This is something I actually do in practice all the time. So it's gonna be a series where I'm gonna add lots and lots of value to you over the years as I released these books. But let me just get right into this. Okay. So here's the sections of the book. What I'm telling you is first of all, the expectations, what I've been able to do successfully, and then I break down all of the steps you're gonna take to actually put this stuff on your resume, particularly if you are in it, if you're in it, the good news is you can very quickly ramp up to cyber security by putting certain things in your resume.
So one of the things I talk about. How to do an ATS style, resume ATS style resume means applic application tracking software. This is what most employers are using these days. If you happen to be putting your resume out there and you're not getting any traction, then it might be because the resume style that you have is not correct.
And sometimes when you put your resume out there it's, if you make it harder on the employer to actually take your, the data in from your resume, you know, it's, they might look, look you over and look for somebody else. So I'm teaching you how to use in in fact, I'm just giving you a template. If you go to convo courses.com and look for my course, it actually has a free template you can download right now that has the template that I use.
That's been successful over over the years. But so that's what I do. I tell you, look, here are the tools that you need to set up for this. Here's the places we're gonna be posting this, this your resume. And one of the main key features that I.  aside from the format and telling you how to do all that stuff is I actually show you how to do the keyword research.
How do you find what career path to do, cuz that's a really important thing. You need to know what path you're doing because here's the thing you can see. There's misspellings in this book. This is a first, this is a rough draft. Okay.  what I do is I bang out the, I just write it as fast as I can. I take all the knowledge and I dump it into this book and then I go through it like two or three times and edit it myself.
Then I get it, give it to an editor. So that's why you're, you might see some misspellings. There's some errors in here. Just ignore that stuff. That's gonna be cleaned up. As I release this, it's gonna be released on Amazon, on my, on my personal site on, and then I I'm gonna advertise it everywhere. Anyway.
what I'm gonna show you, how to do is how to find a specific category of cyber security. Cuz this is one thing that some of the gurus out there and some of the subject matter experts and some of the pen testers and stuff, they don't talk about this. And one that's that this is a huge career field cyber security's huge.
So you don't have just pen tester. You would think that cybersecurity is just a bunch of people in a closet hacking stuff. And that is not a, could not be further from the truth. This is actually a huge career field and it's getting deeper and deeper. And just to give you an example, like in my book here, I'm, I'm breaking down some of the categories that's coming from the government, the government broke down this what they did was they had this initiative where they broke down all of the main career paths of cybersecurity.
It's called the national initiative. For cyber security, careers and studies. I know that's, that's a mouthful, but this is what they called it. Take that up, that issue up with the government of why they name stuff like this, but also known as nice, nice cyber cyber workforce. If you, if you Google that, you'll find this what I'm talking about right here.
So what I'm breaking doing is breaking this down in a practical way that you can use this. So it breaks down things like securely and provision. So what does that mean? That's like people who architect and design. Secure systems. And then you got overseeing govern. That's kind of what I do. That's making sure that the, the system is secure, making sure that we manage the security and manage the the risk associated with that system.
And it also goes into legal advice and then program management and all that kind of stuff. So as you, you could probably tell that that's not super technical or in the weeds or hands on type stuff. That's more like organizing, make sure the organization itself as a whole is doing what they're supposed to do.
So cyber security is a huge field. Another area that we talk about is the, the hacking and the defense and actual people who are on the system you know, on the actual firewall, doing the configuration, putting the rules in those guys do exist. You know, I'm not saying sitting here saying that they're irrelevant or they don't exist.
I'm saying this field is so huge that you've got people who are way in the weeds all the way down the mathematics. Right. Cause you've got people who do CR cyber they, they do cyber crime investigations, forensics. You also have people who are doing crypto cryptography. So that is also considered a part of cyber security by the way.
And this thing that breaks down all those different areas that you would find these different these different categories. And then it breaks it down even further into specializations. So what my book is doing is gonna do and what I'm gonna show you how to do like a practical way to do this for yourself right now is what they do is they break it all the way down to work roles.
And then once you figure out what work roles, the first thing you gotta do is figure out what part of cyber security you want go in. Cause it's not enough to say I want to go into cybersecurity. You gotta be like, I wanna go, I wanna be a pen tester. I wanna be, I wanna go into cryptography. I wanna go into forensics.
I want to go in. I wanna do what Bruce does. I wanna do information system, security officer work. I wanna do compliance. You gotta be down to that granularity. And the only way for you to get there is for you to do some study on your keyword. Right? So that's one of the things I break down in this book.
Now what I'm gonna do right now is show you exactly how I do this. So what I'm gonna do, like live right here right now. Let me just switch my screen here on TikTok. So what I'm gonna do right now is show you what I do. Okay. So there's three main sites in the us, okay. Three main sites. And, and this, this is different by the way, this is different for each country.
If you wanna work in another country, you have to find a whole nother set of a whole nother set of sites to go through in the us. There's a top 10 group of sites that work the best. And just off the top three is gonna be LinkedIn dice and monster. So those three sites are the best sites that you can go through, go to, but there's like 10 or 20 others that you should definitely apply to.
If you're trying to get a cyber security job, if you're trying to get really any job, cuz those are the top sites. Now, if you're in the nursing, if you are doing something completely different, like sanitation engineer, if you're doing something completely different, like civil engineering, there might be other sites and for your industry that are better for you, but you gotta do that research.
I'm talking about cyber security. I'm trying to get you prepped to get into this field in cyber security, by knowing not only the key words, but also the top sites. Now the top sites for that we're talking about is monster LinkedIn and dice. And you can actually, and indeed is another really good one, but these are the sites I'm gonna show you real quick.
So once you do your resume all, so once you, first of all, the first thing you need to do is figure out what keyword. Right. So let's say you did your research and you know, I want Bruce, I wanna go into forensics forensics. I'm gonna show you real quick, how you can find keywords for forensics. If you didn't, if you didn't know a lot about it, if you hadn't done research, if you're just starting out, you just go to the search engine and type in forensics.
Now this is a very broad field. Like forensics itself is super broad. If you ever watch that show CSI, I don't really talk about computers much. They talk about dead bodies and, and extracting the maggots from the bodies and stuff like that. I mean, that's kind of a crude thing, but that's exactly what the talk dog entomology and all that kind of stuff.
We're talking about computer science. So let's type in slip forensics computers. Now I happen to know that they call it digital forensics, but let's say you didn't know that. So you, I just typed in forensics and. See why? And it automatically came up with some keywords. This is how you do it. Now this works.
If you're doing, if you're doing this with cyber security analyst, if you're doing information security, officer information, system, security, period cloud security, anything you, any kind of subject matter, you wanna do this also works for any other field. You wanna be in you just type in a little bit.
And it starts to come up with some of the key words. So let's type, let's look at this one right here, computer forensics analysis. This is leading us down a rabbit hole of all the security keywords that we need for this particular career path. Now I'm gonna go ahead. I'm on monster.com, by the way. And now I'm searching for this career, but now where do we get the keyword?
Once these jobs come up, I'll show you. So, another thing to note is the salaries. Now, if you didn't know, this salary is for information security analyst and they don't always sell the name. You notice the names, none of these are saying forensics. That's because that's, that's how this works. Like if you go into whether you're doing cryptography, whether you're doing whatever, it doesn't always have the exact name of the title of the role, the work role that you want.
And that's why it's very important for you to do the research on your own to figure out what is in this career path. Okay. What are the key words? You can see a pattern already, information security analyst, information, security analysts cyber intrusion, detection, analysts. These are all analysts, right?
Let's look at this one. Cyber forensics analysts. So all of these jobs have analysts work in them. Okay. That's why it's all, these are coming up. The key words are gonna be in the responsibilities, the requirements and the skills, and sometimes they'll have, okay. Yeah. Desired certifications. Just off of this right here.
We can get the DNA.  that's associated with this particular job role this work role, right? Just off of this one thing right here, we can, we can pull a lot of different gold out of this right here. Now let me, let me just show you what I'm talking about in the responsibilities. What you wanna do you wanna read like four or five of these to get an idea of what this job is all about?
First of all, cuz you might not even want to do it, right. You might have watched a CSI one too many times and you're like, oh, I wanna be a hacker. I wanna be, I wanna do forensic, like. It's the job is rarely what you think it is. You know what I mean? So you, you definitely wanna do your research and if you can talk to some, somebody like myself, who's been in this field for a while and ask their, ask them, like, how do you like it?
You've been doing this for 20 years. How do you like doing this job? Is this something that you think I should do? What are the pros and cons? Those are the kind of questions you really want to ask. Let's get back into keywords. So if we're looking at keywords here, I'm seeing a couple off the top of my dome right here.
If you see words like this, that you don't know what the hell it is, PCAP, that's a key right there. If you see there's a couple key tasks in here, stakeholders. There's a couple of key in here already, but you wanna read through responsibilities cuz you might, you might not even wanna do this job collects network, device, integrity, data and analyze signs of tampering and compromise.
Okay. So signs of tampering and compromise is one of the things you do as a. As a forensics guy. Now let's look at, let's get a little deeper into this desired skills. Look at this. Now this is a gold mine of all kinds of keyword. See all this stuff right there. These right here are tools. It says you need to be experienced and proficient with the following tools in case FTK sift.
These are all tools of the trade for a forensics guy. Very important. Like just like a plumber. Like if you are a plumber, there's certain tools that you need to know. Right? There's certain things that, that you basic things in that field that you need to know. If you don't know 'em you gotta get to know 'em right.
Especially if you're brand new at this, you gotta get to know what those things are. Now I'm talking to people who might have a little bit of it experience or something like that. For forensics, you, you probably have to know, at least the basics. In it very, very important. So now let's get back into this.
Let's get back into finding out key keyword here. So these are all key words right here. And now what you wanna do is take these. You got two things you can do from here. You could take this and put 'em into a copy of paste it into a, a blank text file. You can do that. Another thing you can do is put it into something called word art and word art.
What it'll do word word art does is it makes a visual representation of what of what you found. So let me just show you what that, what I'm talking about, that word, art.com and it's, it's just a tool to kind of help you to, to visualize what's going on. So here's word. All right here, you can create your own.
And it, it comes up with this site here and what you'll do is you'll input the words. You'll copy them and then import them in. So let's, let me just show you what I'm talking about. So we're gonna go to, I'm gonna go back here and I'm gonna copy and you wanna do this on two or three different jobs. I'm gonna copy this and we're gonna import what we just copied into word art.
We're gonna import it now. They, they take it right here. So I just copied it. Boom. I, I put it in here and I'm gonna import these words and now what it is, parsed out every word that's in the text that I just downloaded. So what I do, let me backtrack a little bit. So what I did was, what I'm doing is I'm going through two or three of these different websites, two or three of these different jobs, and I'm gonna copy and paste those into a one file.
One word document. Then I'm gonna take those and I'll put 'em into word art. And then we're gonna do get a visualization of what this looks like to see. What, what areas are the most important that we need to focus on tools. Look at this for so forensics, we can see that tools is mentioned a whole bunch of times out of this.
Now this is kind of a light list. Like it's only mentioned twice, but you wanna get like four or five different ones and dump 'em in there, but you kind of see the idea of what is happening here. And then the tools that are mentioned the most is in case now, in case it is a forensics tool, that's very expensive.
You might be able to get a free a free version of it, trial version to, to mess around with it. But this is not, this is not a cheap, this is one of the most expensive tools out there for forensics. So in case I'm very familiar with I'm familiar with that. It's used quite a bit in the government to.
What they'll do is if, if somebody's done a crime on a computer, I could tell you some crazy stuff for forensics that's happened is it's pretty dark. I mean,  the stuff that they're, if you have a forensics guy in there, then whatever the hell's on my computer is pretty, it's pretty bad. Right? It's not something I could talk about without getting flagged by every, you can kind of come up with an idea of what it is, it's murder and it's, it's like stuff like that, right.
Or worse or worse, think of something worse than that. So, anyway, so that's, what's on people's computers. It's just bad, man. Anyway, so in case what it'll do, one of the things it does is it'll take a hard drive that people, somebody has tried to clean, that they try to delete stuff and in case can see all the stuff they.
The stuff's still on the computer after you delete it, by the way, even if you put it in the trash and then emptied the trash, it's still on the computer. And in case looks at the ones and zeros that were originally written on the disc, lifts those up, and then it can reconstruct those into files. Like if they had a image or a video or whatever, it can reconstruct those and give that to whoever's doing the investigation that they'll use for a court case or whatever.
FTC, I believe does the same thing. It's like an open source ver version of in case if I'm not mistaken. And then there's some other tools here, but yeah, this just gives you an idea of how you can pinpoint different keywords that are in any kind of genre and any kind of anything that you're trying to do.
So now that we know how to do keywords, the next thing we wanna do is put that in our resume. Now you don't wanna just put this in any resume. You wanna put it in a, at ATS style resume. Let me show you what I mean by that. So I have an example of that. In my book here. And I'm just gonna show you that real quick.
And if you want an example of this, there's a couple things you can do. You can go and Google how to find a ATS style, resume those exact words. Or you can go to my site combo courses.com and look for a cyber security marketing course. And that has a free downloadable of what I'm about to show you.
And it has the actual format that you can download it and use it for your own resume. ATS style resumes are so important because what the, and see I'm using word are here. I'm telling you how to do this. I'm walking you through it in this book. That's all the stuff that's gonna be in this book. That's coming here real soon.
So I'm looking for the actual resumes. It's I got a lot of stuff in here. It's breaking down everything, every aspect of what I'm telling you right now, but in greater detail I'm I skipped over a whole bunch of stuff that you should, that you should know. . So I'm trying to find my ATS style resume in here.
Man, where is it? Okay. ATS. It should be here. Okay. ATS style, resume all the sections. I'll give you an example of what that looks like. And then we go to there, here, here it is right here. All right. So here is example of a ATS style. Is this it? No, that's not it. Sorry about that. Yeah, this is it. This is it.
See how simple this is. This is an ATS style resume. It's very, very simple. It's it's not got a lot of stuff in it, so it'll have the person's name. It doesn't have any kind that's and fancy. It's nothing fancy going on with this. Now you can make a fancy ATS style resume, you know, and I'm, I'm not wasting my time with that for this.
I'm just telling you exactly how to do this. So you'll start off with the, the, a breakdown of what's going on a person, and then you'll put the your contact information and you'll put A breakdown of who you are. Another thing that I do in the summary by the way is I'll put, I'll put Hey, I wanna RO work remotely, cuz that's an opportunity for you to say that another thing you can do is say, Hey, I have a security clearance.
Like you wanna put the security clearance right up top, if you can. So you can put that in the summary. So you right here, you just put summary, this is ATS style resume. This is it right here. You put the name, you put the contact information. You put a summary, you put education up top, you know, in this style right here.
See how this is. And the reason why the format of this matters is because when your resume is when your resume is uploaded onto these sites, when if you put it on, indeed, that's another thing you need to do. You need to put it on. Indeed. You need to put it on monster dice. LinkedIn, you need to put it on as many sites.
If you don't have a job, your job should be to put this on as many resume as sites as possible. That's what you should be doing. Okay. Another thing I show you how to do is how to protect yourself because another one thing that's happening right now, lately is these freaking scammers are scamming people to get their social security number so they can do identity theft and all that kind of stuff.
So I've never felt fallen prey to that because the way that I do my resume, I don't put my real name. This is crazy. This is CRA I don't see anybody doing what I'm saying. I do not put my real name on the sites. Not I don't do that until I'm like on a screen, I'm talking to a screener, like maybe the second interview.
Then they know my real name. They do not know my real name till I'm on the second interview a lot of times. Right? Cause I'm screening them as they're screening me. Like I'm screening the organization. As I do not put my real phone number. I do not put my real, I might even put a different email address, like a fake throwaway email.
Like you can even do that. But I put a different name, an alias. I put an alias, something similar to my name, but it's not my actual name. I do not put my real phone number. I'll put like a, I'll use a Google voice. I tell you how to do all of this in this book. All right. All this is coming. Soon as I finish this, I've gotta do the first draft of this book.
You can see all kind of misspellings and stuff in here. I'll write the book really fast and then I'll go through it and then edit and stuff like that. So I just wanted to tell you guys, like, I just wanna inform you, this is how I do it. And it's been working for me. I've not been without a job. I mean, we've, you know, we've had several different collapses in the economy where we have recessions.
We've had like, that stuff does not affect me and I'm not trying. I mean, it affects me in like, okay, if I'm going to Walmart and the prices are higher or the gas is hot, jacked up or something. Yeah. That, that affects me obviously. But I'm talking about with a job.  I'm good. Like I'm always employed. And the reason why is because I'm in cyber security, I'm one of the I'm in one of the fastest growing industries in the world.
And not only that, I stay ahead of the game by marketing myself. So I'm people are constantly contacting me about jobs and I'm not sent telling you this to two, my own horn. I'm telling you, you can do this two. You can do all the stuff I'm doing, too. Everything I just told you is what I do. Everything I just told you is what I do.
And that's how I'm able to stay ahead of the game. I put, I, I have a dope resume with all the keywords for the industry I'm searching for. It's all over my it's all over my resume. It's in the, it's in the it's in the, the summary it's in the, it's in the, the actions that I've done for an organization and my work experience.
It's in my skills. It's all throughout my resume. And then I put that out there. And here's another thing. If you are in it, If you are on a help desk, if you are laying cable for people, if you are in the hospital, if you are wherever you happen to be, if you've touched a computer before, okay, you have to put all the security stuff that you've done for that industry, you have to put all the stuff you've done, cuz that's really important.
A lot of times what people will do, whether what they won't do is they won't put the cybersecurity actions that they have taken and, and that's a, that's really bad. So that's another huge thing that you have to do. Okay. So let me keep going here. I'm gonna answer a few questions. I'm not gonna stay on here too long, but if you have any questions, feel free.
If you happen to be watching me feel free to ask me any questions that you have about getting in this industry about cybersecurity, about risk management framework, about security compliance, anything at all. I've been in this career field for a long time. I'm gonna tell you from the perspective of somebody who's been doing this for some time real world Examples, real world practical things that you can use to, to upload, to upgrade yourself.
All right. I'm answering some questions on YouTube as I do once a week. And if you didn't know, I'm all on TikTok, I'm, I'm answering questions there. Very one-on-one type questions. I'm answering questions on my email. I'm doing work for people like helping people with their resumes. I do all that kind of stuff.
If you're interested in that kind of thing, where I'm going way deeper and doing like a one on one, like just me and you corresponding, not like this kind of stuff you can text me at, you can email me at combo courses@contactcombocourses.com. Or you can go to con courses.com and find my contact information there.
I'm out there. Let me answer a couple of these questions. Somebody said, watch one of my videos and said, this is a gold mine. Wow. I appreciate that. Great compliment. This is when I was doing a video about help desk to cyber security and trying to helping people, helping people with that. Somebody said, how can I purchase this book?
Some old book that I wrote? If you didn't know, I've got some books out there on audio, on audible. So if you're interested in getting into, if you like, like listening to books, I listen to books quite a bit. And I just wanna tell you guys, I have a book out there. If you go to audible.com, if you happen to have it, if you don't have audible, actually you're in luck because they'll give you this.
They'll give you like a free trial. But you can go just type in R MF. ISSO. And these are two of the books that I have right now over over four hours worth of content to listen to, if you're interested in this. This will also help you with cap a little. If you happen to be doing a certification in cap, it'll help you a little bit in security plus, but it's like a small portion of security plus.
So it's not gonna help you that much, but cap, this helps you probably, this is 60% or more of the stuff that's on the test. It's not cater to you taking the test, but it will help you to understand like the practical implementation of risk management framework. So there's that if you're interested in listening to this, it's on audible, I'm also on Amazon, just type in, you can just type in Bruce Brown or you can type in NIST 800 control family.
My book is out there as well. And then you can also order it directly from me on combo courses.com. This is the site right here, tons of free stuff here, by the way. I, people are really upset about selling products and things, but a lot of the stuff that I have on here is actually free. And if you go to YouTube, if you follow me on YouTube, it's just so much free stuff on there.
Like a lot of the stuff I say on here, or that's on my website or that's in my books, it's there. You just gotta dig for it. You know, if you want a little bit deeper dive, then that's when you going to get the book or get the course itself. That's, you know, when you're serious about this, that's when you wanna start getting the book and, and getting in deeper in this and asking direct questions.
Okay. Somebody ask me if you want to be an ISSO, what certification do you need? That is a great question. Let me break this down to you. So if so, work is normally for the federal government and let me just put you on some game right here. So if so, work. The federal government goes by something called 81 40.
So 81 40 D O D 81 40 is a breakdown of what every contractor and government employee should have as far as certifications in order to get in this field faster. So what I'm doing right now is I'm actually showing you what 81 40 looks like, see this, what I'm like. And for those of you who are listening to me, I'll explain what you're seeing, what I'm, what we're seeing.
So this is 81 40 and essentially it's approved baseline of certifications. It changes from time to time lately, every about six months that've been updating this. So there's a couple things here that I'm, that I'm not seeing. That's been either removed or added. In fact, let me see if I can go to the newer version of this.
If you go to, oh, what is it? Dissa dot mill. Yeah. And you might see me. Okay, DISA dot mill. I think it is DISA dot mill, 81 40. They have the, one of the most up to date versions of this thing. I'm trying to look for 80. They used to call it eighty five seventy and it's a, it's all the approved certifications.
So if you go by this list right here that we're looking at, this is a list of approved baseline certifications. Let me explain what this what's going on with this thing. If you can see this, if you can, let me make it a little bit bigger here, but I'll also explain it. So they have, they have this broken up by technical and management architects, analysts, and auditors.
Okay. Those are the main categories. And let me just explain each one. So the the I a T means information assurance technical that just that's basic technical troubleshooting.  It might be designing or configuring systems. These certifications are needed. If you're a level one, a level one is basically like a help desk person.
This is a person who has a, basically a one on one relationship to one customer at a time. They, somebody calls in and says, Hey, I have a trouble ticket. That means like something broken and they're, they're not connected to the internet. And they happen to be on the fourth floor. And then you, or you call 'em on online.
Maybe they're, you know, you're a remote worker or whatever, but this is a first line of defense for people fixing computers, help desk customer service, field technician, one, that kind of thing. They will. They're expecting you to have an, a plus certification as listed here, a CCNA security, which is, that's a very hard security.
That's a very hard certifi. I don't know why they put this here. I didn't make this. So keep that in mind.  network plus C and D, which I don't even know what that is. S S C P one of those things. That's I a T level one. That's. And remember I a T level one is a help desk person. Now, if you happen to be upper level, like let's say, not only do you do help desk stuff, but you also do some networking stuff like you might have, you might be responsible for fixing the network on a whole floor.
This is like network engineers. This is like this is like people fixing a whole land, a local area network people who's responsible for a local area, a virtual local area network. So they're, they're kind of having to look at server issues as well as switching and networking problems locally, as well as like one on one customer support.
So what certifications does an I a T level two and information assurance, technical level two need so that's a CCNA security plus CSA plus a CI. So all of these things security plus is a big one. These, these are the ones that they're looking for. Okay. When we're gonna get to the information system security officer in a second here, I'm just building up here so you can kind of understand what's going on now.
I a T level three. So this is an enclave. Normally these guys are not only doing like one on they're kind of beyond the one on one type type of thing. Cuz their skill sets are so versatile that they're needed to do bigger things they're needed to do more like working with the architecture team, working directly with servers they're they're handling stuff.
That's like. Local area network to local area network. So these guys have professional level search. They're very, very in the weeds, but also high enough level to where they have to know, see the bigger picture of what's going on with the network. They're doing enclave to enclave. That's like one lo local area network to another local area network and possibly WANs, which is a wide area network.
And that's way more complex. So this is CCN P security. That's a very difficult certification, a professional level cer Cisco certification, a CSP, which is also a professional level cert that's no joke, a C S S P high level cyber security certification. And then some others G C I H, which is incident handling.
And I, they just added this one CCS P, which is, I think, a cloud, a cloud certification from ISE two squared. I think, I believe that's what it is. Okay. Now let's get into I ISO and the ISO, if you didn't know, is a information system security. So that is kind of what I do. And I can kind of give you in an, in a nutshell, like what an ISO, an information security person does.
So this job is typically your day looks like this. You're doing a lot of meetings. That's what your day looks like. It's a lot of meetings because you're, you're talking to other people within your organization, stakeholders, you're, you don't have to be a, a subject matter expert in say, firewalls, you don't have to be a subject matter expert in say networking or routers and stuff, but you do have to know enough to be dangerous.
Like you do have to know enough to communicate what is happening with the organization. Your responsibility, as an information system, security officer is to manage the risk is to help the organization to manage the risks of the organization so they can maintain their security posture. Now you might be like, Bruce, what the hell are you?
Are you talking about what are you? Let me spit it in layman's terms. That means. The, the organization has a certain level of security and they need to maintain that. And what does that mean? Like, think about it. Windows is constantly changing. It's constantly having upgrade to patches. There's constantly vulnerabilities coming out.
There's constantly new education that needs to happen with the users. There's all these new threats that are happening from day to day. Everything's constantly changing in it. Well, that's where an information system security officer comes in because our job is to make sure that no matter what changes happen, the organization stays compliant and stays secure at a certain level.
It's very challenging, especially if the organization has a lot of different technologies or also very large or organization with lots of stuff going on. So let's get back into what actual certifications does this information system security officer need. And I'm gonna show you here right now. So let's go back to the 81 40, so 81 40 up here is an is.
So is considered a, a manager type role. Okay. It's a manager type role because you're dealing with, you're not just doing in the weed stuff, fixing computers. You're not just working with firewall. They might have you do some stuff like that. But your time is mostly spent coordinating with the organization to make sure that the organization is doing what they're supposed to do.
I said organization. So you're, you're talking to C level execs. You're talking to upper level managers. You're talking to the, to the system, administrators, you're talking to users, you're talking to user reps. You might even be talking to the customer. So it's a lot of meeting. So if it's a manager type role, you gotta be able to communicate effectively.
So a cap, a cap is a, a certified authorization professional. So what they do is exactly what I'm talking about. They make sure that the organization can maintain a certain level of authorization so that the, so that all of their documentation is good, so that all the security compliance security controls on their system is good.
And let me break this down to you. So cap is a good one. Another one is CI while I'm topping here. Another one is a CI S S P CI SS P is a good one. Security plus is also a good one. Those three, I say, well, the top certifications that ISSO is typically typically has. Now this might evolve cap cap.
I notice comes up a lot. CS a comes up from time to time. But look at these, what I'm, what I just did was I logged into ISE two squared.org, and I'm showing you the different certifications now cap. This is the certified authorization certification. So security assessment and authorization certification.
So that's what it is. Certified authorization professional. That's what it's called. So this is one of the top. This specifically focuses on N 800. So N 800 is what the federal government and states and some other organization contracting organizations will use to ensure that you know what you're doing when you're talking about security.
For an organization. So these, let me just read a couple more here, a, a couple other ones that an ISSO is considered they're good for an ISSO is let me just name a few that I've seen in the industry, a cap, a cap, a C SM, a C S S P a G S GS, C L L C. And a recent add-on. These two right here is C, C I S O and a H C I S P P, which is normally for hospitals.
This is like HIPAA compliance and stuff that one's getting gaining ground right there. And this is listed on the dissa site. So this is that's a dot mill site. So that's, that's a big deal right there. So those are the main ones. I hope that answers your question. Let me keep going down questions. If you guys have any questions whatsoever, feel free to ask me, like, I've been doing this so long.
Just off the top of my head. I, I know this stuff. I've just been doing it so long. You know, I don't know if that's necessarily a good thing, cuz it's pretty much. All I know , you know what I mean? So let me see let me answer a couple questions here. Somebody said how do you get, how do you get this?
I'm looking for? Okay. What, what are you talking about here? A hundred. Oh, okay. I posted a job a job, a remote job where you're making a hundred K. And somebody says, how do you get this? I'm looking for this right now. I took a cyber security course, and now I'm studying for the interview questions.
I would like to know how you do this boss. Okay. So I do this, like in the beginning of this, of this session, I, I talked about it and I can just give you a brief rundown. The first thing I do is I make sure all the keywords are on my resume. So every, every category of cyber security. Has a different set of keywords.
For example, for example, at one time I was proficient at like two or three different parts of cyber security. I was, I was proficient. I'd done it before I'd had certifications, everything. Right. And those two were one, I was a seam engineer. That's a security information event manager, engineer. I could build them from scratch, set 'em up, create content for it.
And it could monitor all your logs. You know, I did that for like three years straight, so I just, I just knew it. And then another thing was, I was an information. I still am information system security officer. I know that means I like, I know how to allow an organization to be compliant with certain security standards.
And then another thing I was good at was cyber security analyst work. So those three things, those are three separate resumes. Okay. They have three separate keyword sets of keyword. . So what I did was I made a resume for each one of those. Each one has different certifications that are more relevant. I'd put those on top.
Each one has different. Some of 'em really require a security clearance. Like if so, and a cyber security analyst usually requires a security clearance, cuz you're working in like a, a, so a security operation center, which is, has classified information and blah, blah, blah. But the, the scene really didn't need a security clearance.
So I could even leave that off. And that was still good. My point is every single time you, whatever career path you're going in, it has this different set of, of keywords. And so what I do to make myself more marketable for this is I get keywords for each one of those work roles. Whatever it is. And to do that, you can, you can actually research it and figure it out.
Right? And I'm not telling you to lie on your resume. I don't recommend that a lot of people like lie on your resume. Why aren't you, why aren't you lying on your resume? Me personally, I say don't no, do not lie on your resume. Do not put your picture on your resume. Like put your picture on your, not resume, but, but unless you're on in, I guess EU does that, but put your picture on your profile.
Some people are like, nah, because I'm black. I don't want people to see that I can't get jobs. Nah. Why would you wanna work at an organization who doesn't want you? You need to put your picture there and if they don't wanna work with you, you shouldn't wanna work with them. That's how I feel about it. I don't wanna work somewhere.
They don't want me. So I put my black face on my profile. Go look at it. It's up there right now. So that's number one, like put your don't lie on your resume. The reason why I don't lie on my resume is because I don't want to get in there. And then they, I, they think I'm some, I'm freaking gonna walk on water and I don't not for that particular technology.
Not only that, but in the res in the actual interview, they will ask you these questions and then they will verify what you sold them. They will call your employer and ask, Hey, did Bruce do this X, Y, and Z. They'll do that. Especially as you go higher up in the echelons right now, if you wanna fudge some numbers of how long you work the place, and you know that it's not that big of a deal, but do not put certifications.
You don't have do not. Don't lie about your degree. They're gonna check that stuff, right? Don't like, this is some obvious things you shouldn't, you shouldn't lie about on your resume, cuz they will ask you I'm going through an interview process right now. You better believe they're investigating me.
They're looking at it. Every part of my life I'm having to put in there. Right? Because it, you can't, you can't just lie on your resume. So I don't recommend lying on your resume, put the real deal on your resume. But not only that put the key words for what you're doing on your resume. So that.  when so that way, when you put the, when you upload this into LinkedIn into dice, into monster, and you need to put it on like 20 or 30 different job aggregators, okay.
You need to put on 20 or 30 different ones. And that's why I say you shouldn't use your real phone number or your real, you should use an alias because you're gonna get so many calls from all kinds of people and you don't wanna get scammed anyway. So that's what you do. That's what I do. And that's how I've been able to get all these offers for remote 100 K type jobs or more.
And, and that's how you do it. And I'm writing a book right now. If you're interested in this, if you're super deep into this, if you're very serious about this, I'm writing a book right now, it's gonna be out soon. And if you, if you, if you're interested in this, the very beginning of this podcast, I broke down exactly how, what I'm telling you.
I broke down. I showed you my like, how, how I picked these key out, how I find them. All that kind of stuff. If you're interested in this, a book is coming, that's gonna break all this down in great detail about how to get into cybersecurity in particular, but you can use these techniques for basically any, any job where you have to apply for a resume.
Any job you need a resume that you could use it for that. So let me see, I got a couple other questions that says on TikTok it says I just got a free ISO two course. And let me see. Cert is free when I'm done. Have you heard of this course? Yes, this is, this is great. Like thank you so much for asking that question.
So I've been, I've been telling everybody about this new certification that's coming out, like what's happening right now. If you guys didn't know, is that the government's hurting for cyber security positions, there's something. 700,000 careers that are empty slots. Like we in desperate need of, of people to get in here.
So what's happened is there's been this huge push from nonprofit organizations, corporations, and government entities to actually get people into this field as entry level. And so ISD two squared has this new certification. That's an entry level cybersecurity certification. And right now it's free. It will not be free forever because is ISD two squared.
I don't know if you knew this, but they don't, they don't mess. They don't mess around. They do not. These guys have the top cyber security certification in the world, arguably in the world's called C I S S P. I have this certification, this certification changed my life. It's a high level cyber security certification that talks about nothing and everything.
But it is so good at marketing me. Like, all I gotta do is put that on my resume. I could probably just have a blank page with just C I S S P on there, and I'd probably get hired. That's how powerful this resume. And it's the reason why this certification's so powerful is because they've done a great job of marketing it.
That being said, I'm saying this to tell you that they're now given this damn thing, this right here for free, this is an entry level for you to get into cyber security. This right, this right here, I'm showing you it's called certified in cyber security CC. Now, from here, you can build into other sec into other this is an entry level, but you can take this and build up to a higher level certification.
That's why this is so powerful. And these guys, this is not some fly by night, organiz. This is one of the top, if not the top and best cyber security certification organizations in the world on planet earth currently right now. So this is a great path. If you are actually looking into this, this is a great path for you to do, do this, doing it for free.
They're giving it away for free. This will not be free for long. I guarantee you because they're trying to compete directly with comp Tia security plus, that's what they're trying to do. And eventually this right here, this certification, I mark my words. This certification right here, this certified in cyber security will be on this sheet right here.
This is 81 40. This is 81 40. Also known as 85, 70 approved baseline for certifications. They will have CC on this. I bet you it'll be like right here. They'll put it right here alongside a plus certification, alongside C and D and all these other ones. And once this goes on here, It'll be way more marketable than it is right now.
Right now it's a free certifi it's it's brand new people don't really know about it. People are kind of figuring it out. Like they're kind trying to compete with this and the Google support it and the security plus, and those kind of certifications that are entry level because the government is making this huge push to get more and more people in this field.
This is a really, really exciting time to get into cyber security. This is, this is a rare opportunity where they're trying to open the doors, but you, this is not a field where you can just come in off the street and know nothing. You have to do some work. Like even if you come in and know nothing, you have to do work to understand the basics of information technology.
Right. That's all. I'm, that's what I'm saying. So this is a great opportunity. Let me see, I got a couple other questions that says, how does a civilian get a security clearance? Okay. So there's a couple ways. Just, just so you know, I've been doing this for some time and I've had security, all kinds of security clearances from public trust, all the way up to top secret type certification security clearances.
Another one misconception that you, that I wanna dispel is that you don't need a security clearance to get into cyber security. They're two separate things. Okay. A security clearance is just verifying that you are, are who you say you are. They're VE they're doing a, a, anywhere from a basic security background check to make sure you're not that you are trustworthy to work in their organization with secret information.
They're making sure you're not linked to any kind of terrorist organization or insurgents or militia organizations. You'd be surprised. You'd be surprised how many people are associated with it.  because every time they ask me, I'm like, ha ha. That's ridiculous. I'm not, but no, there's really a lot of people who are associated with these organizations that wanna take down the government that don't feel like they have some kind of issues with the United States government, or they're tied to another government.
They actually happen to be working for another government. And they're trying to get in and infiltrate. You'd be surprised how many people this, this applies to anyway. So background check is just trying to see if you are who you say you are. If you don't have, make sure you don't have any crazy credit issues, that's gonna affect you to work on their job, making sure you're not like a, your a super predators killing people or something like that.
Yeah, they're trying to just do that. That's separate from cyber security. Okay. Cyber, a lot of cyber security jobs need a security background check. Because the nature of the information that you're gonna be having access to, and they wanna make sure that they can trust you to protect their systems, but they not, every, not every job requires a security background check.
Okay. Cyber security is their separate things. You can be a janitor and need a security clearance. Okay. So the question was, how does a civilian get a security clearance? There's a couple ways. Number one, work for an organization who will get you a security clearance. If you happen to work in the DMV area that's DC, Virginia, Maryland area.
There's so many jobs, not just cyber security you might have be a groundskeeper and mowing grass and have to have a clearance, some dead serious. You might be painting the inside walls of a, a skiff that need you need a clear. You might, there's all kind of clerical jobs secretarial jobs name something, janitors anything like can get you.
So you would, one way that you could get in is if you had a job, if you got a job at a place that required a clearance, a lot of times they will pay for you to get a clearance. They will pay for you to get the clearance because it costs money to get a clearance. Another thing is you can there's sites.
Somebody contacted me the other day. They were trying to get me a clearance. Like they didn't, they didn't know. I guess they would contact me and saying, Hey, we can get you a clearance and stuff. So there's, there's private organizations that can get you a clearance, but you're gonna have to pay for it.
It's not cheap. Just to give you an example, from what I heard a security, a secret background check is like $5,000. And then a Ts is like $10,000. That's what an organization has to pay to get you a clearance. And then a public trust. I don't know, public trust is like here. Secret clearance is here and then above that is top secret and all other white house, all this other stuff.
So, yeah, so you can, you can get into a position, a job that requires it and then they'll let the organization pay for it. That's probably the best way. The other way is to get it privately and pay for it yourself. That's another way. But then it has to remain active. I don't know how all that stuff works, but so those are the two ways that I personally know about how to do it.
So, and I could be wrong. Anybody else you guys know of another way to do it, please chime in and, and, and inform me what's going on. Let me see here. Somebody ask hope that ask your, answer your question, by the way. Somebody ask so I just signed up and I have to take an exam. Yes. So, so I believe that that, that I C two squared, they have a, they have a course.
All right. And I believe the course is free. If it's still free, they have a course that you can take that breaks down. What's gonna be on the test. And then you, you, you go to that course, you study for it. If it's still free, hopefully still free it. They were saying it was a value of one ninety nine, a hundred ninety $9.
But even if it costs $199, it's worth you investing in yourself. It's, it's, it's worth the risk. It's worth the risk. Anyway, if it's still free, cuz just last week, it was free. You take the, you go through the course that I believe is on course. Sarah it's either on course, Sarah or it's on their website.
Okay. Sign up for their website. They'll give you a breakdown of everything you need to do. And then from there you will take the test. Like once you study for it, you take the test. Somebody.  no they're paying for it once you finish the course. There you go. Okay. Thank you for that. ODI says no, they're gonna pay for it once you take the course and there's only 1 million openings.
Okay. There you go. Okay. I stand corrected. So let me, let me correct myself. So what he's saying is once you, it was free for a while. It was, it has actually free like a, like a week ago or something  I'm telling you. So now you're gonna have to take the, the, the course, and then once you take the course, I think was 1 99, then you you'll take the test, pass it, get your certification.
So let me see. You have to take a test. Yes. It's this is, yeah. There's there's hurdles. You have to take the test to get the certification, but it's worth your inve. If you are serious about this, it's worth your time. Okay. Let me see. I got a couple other questions. Somebody said I barely see a hundred percent remote opportunities.
Most people keep wanting people to be on site. That's true. And bro branding, I, I would add to that and say a lot of the security clearance, a lot of the cyber security jobs that require security clearances do require you to be on site at least like a hybrid on site. But I would say that there's a lot more remote jobs opportunities than than there were before.
COVID cuz it was, it used to be really hard to find them. Now they're everywhere and I could show you how to find them real quick. I'll show you let see if I could show you on LinkedIn, if you guys didn't know, I have a LinkedIn page you can search me out on Bruce Brown for the win. Let me show you on.
If you guys happen to be on LinkedIn here, here I am right here. If you type in Bruce, go to LinkedIn and type in Bruce. CIS S P RMF or something like that. You'll find me there. It is right there. There I am right there. And so join me. I'll definitely add you. I've got a, a lot of people wanting to add and I'm, I'm always open to, to add people or you can talk to me online, all that kind of stuff, but okay.
Let me show you how to find remote jobs. Okay. Let me see. Let's let's say you were looking for a cyber security analyst job, right? Cyber I'm just, just randomly pick one off out the air. So now check this out. First. You'll go jobs. And the reason why you wanna check pick jobs is because there it's gonna show you everything.
It's gonna show you companies, posts, schools, groups, people, all that you want jobs. Okay. So search jobs, then post a date. You don't want any time, cuz this goes back like a year or something. You want something within the, at least the last month.  all right, so let's look for last month and then this one's up to you, they got internships, entry level, associate senior manager, whatever.
Right? You ch choose that. But if you don't really care, leave that blank and then remote, let's go to remote job. So here it is right here. You're gonna onsite versus remote. So you've got hybrid, you got remote and you got onsite. You just click on site. Now you notice it went from 17 K jobs down to three K jobs.
I'm on LinkedIn, by the way. So I just went to jobs stuff in the past month. And then I went to remote on site. This is a new feature, by the way, they didn't have, it needs to have all of this stuff. And now they have it on dice. They have it on monster. They have it on almost every site because remote jobs are so prevalent now after COVID.
So here you go. Here are some remote jobs for cyber security analysts, which I just typed in. And that's how you find remote jobs right there in five minutes. I just showed you how to do it.  and you can do this with every site, with monster, with LinkedIn, with with da, with, with dice, all of these show you how to do remote jobs.
And if you go to dice, let me see if this one's ready. So here's, here's my profile on dice.com. I'm about to turn this thing off, man. I'm getting so many contacts with these guys, so there's a way to search for remote jobs. Let me just show you here. Let me I'll do the same thing. Cyber security. I'll just type in cyber security.
I didn't put a location in I'll hit search and check this out. It comes out with this page right here, taking a little bit of time and then look right at the top. Remote only if I hit remote only you notice it went down from 4,800 jobs to 600 jobs. So, yeah, there are less Brandon to, I, I could piggyback on what you're saying.
There are quite a bit less, but there are jobs there. I mean, look at this there's 600 jobs here. I mean, granted, I didn't search for, I said any dates, so that's, that's probably, what's adding to that. Let's do the last seven days. It's gonna be quite a few less. Oh, still 126 jobs. Look at that. These are all remote jobs.
And all I did was type in cybersecurity, look, 100% remote cyber security analyst, all of these are a hundred percent remote. Now you gotta double check. Cuz one of the things I noticed about these jobs is sometimes they'll say they're a hundred percent remote, but then when you do a, an interview with 'em, they're like, well, well it's a hundred percent, but we want you to come into the, I was like, Is this a hundred percent or not?
yeah. You gotta do an interview with 'em to make sure and ask them, is this a hundred percent remote? You know what I mean? Like you usually straighten that out with the, with the actual screener, once you, once you talk to them, ask them, and then sometimes it's, it is remote, but it's like 50% travel or something.
Like there's always some kind of catch sometimes with the judge. You just gotta make sure you, you weed out those gotchas with the remote jobs. I just went through this. That's why I know a lot about it. You know, , I've been, do working remotely for the past seven years now. Like I've been working remotely for a long time.
Crazy. It's crazy to me. Like I've been working. Yes. Seth's been seven years. I started in 2014 working remotely and I've been working remotely ever since. And I will never go back. I will never go back.  all right. And that being said, if you guys are interested, I have a course on how to work remotely.
It's on combo courses.  Go check it out on combo courses dot com, just work, find the remote jobs course. And then I have it out there and I I'm, I might even write a book about that one and break it down. So it's like a 20, $20 book or something like that. I might, I might do that cuz I I've gotten pretty good at getting remote jobs and winning those remote job positions.
Okay. Let me see link to the course. I'm assuming you're talking about the C the CC let me see if you're interested in this. We were just talking about this, this course right here, which is an entry level ISC two squared course, which they're given. I believe you have to pay for their training and then thinks 200 bucks for the training.
Now it was free like last week, unfortunately, no longer free. And then after. That you take the, the test and I think they give you the test for free. If I'm not mistaken, correct me if I'm wrong, TikTok somebody on TikTok, correct me on that one. I appreciate that. But yeah, here's the link right here. It's ISC two dot org slash configuration certifications and four slash CC.
Or you can go to Google and just type in ISE two square ISE, two space CC, and you'll find it. Let me see if I can give you the link in the chat. I, I don't have access to the chat right now. Yeah, and I always walk me through all this other stuff I gotta do to get link access to that. All right, guys, that's it for this one.
Thank you for watching. I really appreciate all the questions. Thanks a lot for, for all your kind words and stuff and all the donations. Appreciate that. Thank you so much. I've got a couple other questions on, on TikTok. Let me see if I can answer those real quick. Yes, it's still a self-paced exam.
Okay. We're still talking about the I C two CC. So I can get an entry level job with a CI S S P certification. Can you get a, okay. So with the CI SS P it requires like five years of experience. So somebody's either got a vouch for you having five years of experience, or so you're typically, if you have a C I S P you don't have, you're not an entry level person.
Now, if you happen to get, I think you can sit for the test, but you, they won't give you the cert until you hit all of these different requirements, but by the time you hit those requirements, you no longer entry level, if that makes any sense. So I don't know if I answer your question. Let me see. You said so I can get an entry level job with a C S S P cert.
You, once you have a C S P you don't have to get an entry level. You're not an, you're not an entry level person. If you have a CI S S P. So, so the, the certification we were talking about is called a, an ISC two. Let me just show you what we were talking about. We're not talking about CI SS P we're talking about a certified in cybersecurity certification.
That's from ISC two squared. It's this one right here. If this is an entry level certification, you don't need any requirements. Before you go into this. If you're talking about something like a CI S S P there's actual requirements, before you can even take the test before you even take the test. And even if they allow you to sit for the test, you have, somebody has to vouch for you that you have a certain level of experience before they'll give you the certification, something to that effect.
Okay. Let me see. Hey, Bruce, where would you start? If you had to start all over again, without any knowledge of cyber, I would start with cloud.  or right now cloud's super hot, man. So I would, what I would do right now. If I was starting from scratch. That's a great question. I would, number one, I'd go to eight.
I'd go to, okay. There's a couple shirts I would get with no experience, know nothing starting from scratch. Knowing what I know now I would start with the AWS cloud certification, that one. And then there's no one from Google called Google, Google. Its, let me see if I can, let me just show you. I don't, I don't wanna be a liar here.
One, the one is called and let me, I'll explain to you why I would get these and you it'll blow your mind and you'll you'll follow exactly what I'm saying. It will blow your mind. So there's one called AWS certifications. If you wanna follow along with me, let me just show you what I'm saying. What I'm seeing right here.
Oh, wait we go back. Okay. There we go. Okay. So AWS certifications. I just typed it in. And skip all the ads, skip all the ads. We wanna go directly to amazon.com site. Okay. So I would take this right here. See this AWS certification so you can train on their site. I believe their training is free and he, they even have a whole path for you.
This one right here, this cloud practitioner is the one I would take. And the reason why I would take look at this it's 90 minutes long, it only costs a hundred dollars. I could take this right now. I could, I could literally I'm thinking about it. Actually. I'm gonna take this test. The reason why I would take this one, one of the first ones I would take is because in the last I just had five different interviews.
All right. I'm not even count counting the, the the screening interviews I had. I like probably 20 screening interviews or more, but I had about five interviews in, in four. Out of the five interviews. They all ask me about cloud. Now I'm an old head cloud is actually new for me. I have not dive dove into it.
I have a little bit of exposure to it, but not a lot. Right. I don't, I know some of the difference between a P a a S an versus a S a a S versus a I a, a S like, if you know what I'm talking about here,  like different platforms of cloud, like platform. Cloud as a service versus software as a service versus whatever, as a service, like everything as a service planet earth, as a service, whatever the hell there, the terminologies, I'm an old head.
Like I, this is new to this crap is new to me right now. Virtualization's not new to me. That's been around, but cloud this and cloud that like everything's going to cloud. And the biggest cloud service right now is a Ws. They always ask me about that. And I had to be like, mm, I, that's not my, you know, but I can tell you this.
Here's what I know. You know, they all ask me about it. So if I was starting from scratch, I dos, if I really didn't know anything, nothing at all. And I was like a, like, starting from absolute scratch. I'll probably take the same one I did when I first started, which was a plus certification. Like if you know absolutely nothing about it, then probably the best thing to take would be an a plus certification, cuz that will get you.
At least knowledgeable on, on how computers work, cuz you really need to know, you need to know like the difference between Ram storage and and the CPU you need to know, kind of have an idea of how CPU work. You don't have to know like how the addresses are mathematically algorithm, the mathematical algorithm of how the CPU, you know, moves pixels from this side of the screen to another.
Like it's not even that deep, like it's just telling you, this is how the Ram works physical memory. Here's how it works with the storage versus the CPU. Here's how they all work to make a computer. You need to know what a computer is, how they work, how to troubleshoot 'em so a plus comp Tia, a plus certification.
One of the first ones I would take if I knew absolutely nothing, cuz that will give you after you take that certification, there's two different ones that you have to take in order to get the a plus once you know that you'd be able to troubleshoot computer, any computer, like you'd be able to troubleshoot.
A laptop, a server, your phone, they're all computers. They all use the same components essentially and different configurations. And then you'll have a solid understanding of how cloud works because it's also a computer. It's also a, it's a bunch of computers that are somewhere else over the internet.
That's, that's pretty much it. And then I would take that one and then another one that's pretty hot is Google support it. I would take that one. I would take a comp a plus. I'd learn everything I need to know about that one, take the test, pass it. I would learn. I would do Google support it. The basic one that they have out there, they got like two, I'd do the basic one.
And then I would do cloud AWS cloud practitioner. That's what I would do. And then after that, I, I put my resume out there and then I, I try to get some, I would do either internship or I'd do a a entry level. I do entry level making 15 bucks an hour to get my foot in the door to, and then I'd work there for like six months.
And then I would transition to another organization. That's what I would do. And then I would, I would take my, my experience from that place. I worked six months and then I would go work at another place and then ask for more money. That's what I would, that's what I would do. Another thing. This one dude on TikTok blew my mind.
So this dude had a brilliant strategy. And if you have the money to do this, this is the most brilliant strategy you could do. If you have the resources to do it. Now, this guy did, but he, he went to this college called. Oh, GWS governors, Western governors, university or somethings. So legitimate college, like the government when I was in the military, they were promoting it a lot.
GWS college college. Let me Western governors. G w G U. That's what it's called. So this, this, this dude, his name is Chris. He's one of the top cyber security guys out there. He went here to this college right here. He took a course in cyber security. I guess they have one here. He did it in six months.
It's not gonna be cheap. He did didn't undergraduate in, I think, six months then what he did WGU that's right. Then what he did, this is brilliant. So if you have the money to do this, this is, this will get you six figures super fast. He took this right. It took six months. It's not cheap. . Yeah. I mean, you know, relatively speaking, it's not cheap.
This is, this is not bad for a college, to be hoNIST with you. So he got an undergraduate in six months, accelerated course in it. Well, he did one of these and then I believe he took the it certification with it. One at, I, I believe he took one of these. If I'm not mistaken he took one of these, see this cloud one would be dope right here.
Look at all these certifications, you could take one of these certifications with it. That's what I would do. And then after you'd come out with a bachelor's degree or even a master's degree with one of these cloud certifications, and then you can, you can possibly make six figures after that. That's in that's within a year within one year.
I think what he did was he did something called the OS. C O S C P, which is super hard certification. I think he did this one right here. I believe he did something like this. And then he was able to get a six figures within a year, which is very impressive. And then he also took this dude. He's pretty impressive.
I mean, this, like, this's some people who are this hardcore and this talented to do this. I don't think this is for everybody, but he took this certification called O S C P penetration test. It's one of the, I heard it's a pretty hard test, but it's from offensive security and it's a practical test where you have to hack live for 24 hours or something.
And you got this certification. Look at this, look at this course,  $1,400. So for all you guys complaining about my course being 200 damn dollars. Look, look at this, look at this Fe your eyes on this. This is how much a course costs baby.  don't complain about no $200 to me. This is how much they cost right here.
All right guys, I'm out.

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Convocourses Podcast: CIS controls to 27001 mapping

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Hey guys, this is Bruce and welcome to a convo course podcast. And today I want to talk about one thing in particular, and that is the CIS and how it maps to the ISO 27,000. And one, if you didn't know, both of these are security compliance frameworks that are used in the public sector and private sector, as well as international organizations.
So pretty much a little slice of everybody use. One are the two of these particular security frameworks. CIS is typically used for the private sector. That means like retail stores or banking or community centers or those kind of organizations that are private Lee own organization. And sometimes nonprofits.
I'll also say that in having worked in the public sector from time to time, we'll actually use CIS controls as well. It, just depends on what kind of what we're doing. Like we use the CIS benchmarks. I've seen those used within the government within like department of defense, cuz it's just a great tool to use.
And if you're interested in finding this, just go to Google or being or Yahoo or your favorite search engine and just type in CIS controls and. Right now you have a mapping from the CIS controls version 7.1 to ISEL 27,001. Now right now, CIS controls are on version eight. I'm not, I don't think that one's out yet, but right now we are focusing on.
Version 7.1, but we will revisit this once we get version eight. Okay. So that being said, I sell 27,001 is an international standard for information security management. And they both, do the same thing. It's for an organization to have a guidance on how to actually. Proceed as far as securing their entire network, not even just the software and hardware devices that are connected to the network, but also things like physical security, maintenance.
All aspects of protecting the actual security of the system. Whether it's outside of the system whether who's touching the system who has access to the system, all those things let's start from the top. So what we're gonna do is just focus on the main security controls, like CIS control, one that is inventory and control of hardware assets.
And you'll see that the IO 27,001 has something similar in and it's called a.eight.one.one. So inventory of assets, right? They kind of group 'em all together. They don't break 'em apart in individual things for ISO 27,001. Whereas I CIS controls, they break it up into do different things. CIS control one is hardware.
Whereas CIS two is inventory of security controls. I inventory of security sorry, inventory and control of software assets. That is not broken apart by ISO 27,001. They keep those together as a dot eight, do one.one. Let's keep going here. We're gonna go to the next control, which is CIS control three, which is vulnerability management, continuous vulnerability management, every single security compliance.
Framework does have some sort of vulnerability management, our continuous monitoring and vulnerability management they're hand in hand. And this one is no different, so I sold 27,001, let me see let's see if they have it here. They have more of a risk rating response. That's continuously done.
management of technical vulnerabilities. Yeah. So they have a dot 12, do six.one that matches to CIS control three, 3.7, to be precise. Let's go on, keep moving here to CIS control four. And that covers controlled use of administrative privileges. And that's really important because you don't wanna give your admin accounts to everyone.
That's one. One of the things that some organizations do is they'll just give admin rights to everyone, anyone who needs it, they'll just put it on individual laptops and think it's okay. And it's really not okay. Because if you have an administrative privilege on that system, you can pretty much do what you want with that particular system.
And it might even allow you to escalate privileges on other systems. So you gotta be really careful with that. So that's why you have CIS control for. Controlled use of admin privileges and let's see what ISO 27,001 has. So ISO 27,001 does have this and they've broken it into parts and have it as password management systems as a dot nine dot four dot three.
They also have managed privileged access rights. There you go right there. So that matches directly to CIS four controlled use. Admin privileges. Let's keep it high. So far, I've gone through a bio, probably about 50 different controls. If you break it into the sub controls, it's probably 50. We just hit, but we'll just keep it high level and just focus on the main security controls.
Now let's move on to CIS five and this one deals with secure. Secure configuration and hardware software. This means like whenever you have a, laptop, a hard a laptop, a workstation, a server, there's a hardening process. Meaning we're gonna take this system and we're gonna make sure it doesn't have default passwords.
Make sure it has it's locked down. The WiFi's not just open and, attaching to anything. Maybe the wifi is off. We have some sort of secure configuration that we put on all hardware and software for mobile devices, laptop. Workstations and servers. This is a common, this is a, best practice. That's using most security frameworks.
So the ISO 27,001 does have this and they have it broken into two parts ex acceptable use of an asset where you would actually secure that system. And then also secure system engineering principles. Let's keep going to maintenance, monitoring, and analysis of audit. So the reason why audit logs in CIS control six is merged with maintenance is because audit logs are used not only for making sure that the incidents if you find any incidents, you can find them through the audit logs, but also for maintenance because every now and then a system goes down and you could put that in the log.
So it goes directly to a server. So you can, your maintenance people can go in and say, okay, let's look at the logs and see where this thing crash. So CIS six actually covers this and it maps directly to two different security controls in ISO 27,001 mainly event logging and clock synchronization. The reason why clock synchronization is important is because if you need a timestamp for all logs, otherwise if, you see that the system went.
You need to know what time it went down. So the actual clock synchronization is super important to event logs at the, and if the time is off, you don't know when an incident happened. You don't know when the system went down or whatever the log is telling you. All right. Let's keep going to CIS seven, which covers email and web browser.
Protections and these just so you know, these are not that much different from CIS controls eight. This is the same one that's so far, these are all the same ones that are in CIS version eight. So anyway, let's keep going here. We wanna know if this maps to ISO 27,001 and it does. So it goes into susceptible use of assets, just like we seen on the, in the previous section.
And then also it goes to restrictions on. Installations and that's what you have for protecting the email and browser protections. Another thing it has is network controls, making sure that the network traffic isn't going all over the place, making sure that we, making sure that the internal, our internal users are not allowed to go to.
Sites that they're not supposed to go to another one that's broken up into in ISEL 27,001 is control against malware. And that's your anti-virus stuff. E electronic messages that is making sure that you have secure messaging going back and forth, making sure that you don't have like email spoofing, things like that.
So it's broken up into several different parts, but let's keep going here to the next section to C I S eight and that's malware defense. This goes really deep into malware defenses for CIS controls those in everything from centralized management of, manage of anti malware software as, as well as ensuring that anti malware software signatures are updated and things like that.
And we do have this on ISO 27,001 name. And the control against malware is where we would find that in ISO 27,001, but there's several other breakdowns in ISO 27,001 that also link to our malware protection. All right, let's keep going to CIS nine. And this goes to limitations and control of network, ports, protocols, and services.
This is a common best practice that you'll find in this 800 you'll find in all of the different frameworks in some way, shape or form, do cover this on how to actually focus in. And use the, law of least functionality is what it's called the nest 800. But anyway let's, go into this one. So we're talking about associating, active ports and services with two asset inventories.
So we need to know is if port 23 is on which systems are using port 23. And ensuring the next one is ensuring only approved ports and protocols are used are running like what we only use in what we need. And you'll find the same thing in ISO 27,000 in one with security of network services and segregation of networks.
And then also network controls. Let's keep going here and see how we can map the next one, which is C I.  control 10, which is data recovery capabilities. So this one does map to ISO 27,001, namely in information backups that those two map directly to the CIS data recovery. And this is just what you might think is ensuring that you have regular automated backups making sure that you can recover from those backup.
And, making sure that you protect those backups. All right, let's go to the next one. And we don't have that many more to go here. But this should give you an idea of what's in CIS controls and also what's in ISO 27,001 as well. So let's keep going. CIS control 11. So this is secure configuration of net for network devices, such as firewalls routers and switch.
And if I'm not mistaken, this one might be a little bit different in the CIS eight. It's not the same. The content's the same. They just shifted things around a little bit. So this one is, dealing with maintaining a standard for security configurations for network devices. That's their switches.
That's your routers, that's your firewalls and things like that. And let's see if there's a comparable. Control on ISO 27,001. Yeah, we have change management. This is where you would control the actual iOS security on a system and making sure that you have change management. But the, also the another one that they have here on ISO 27,001 is segregation of networks.
That one is lined up with what you have in CIS controls as well. All right. Let's keep going.  C I S 12, and that is boundary defense. Now this is also in N 800. All the stuff that I've read so far is also in missed 800, maybe going forward, we will cover how CIS maps to N 800 because it does it all maps up.
And if one, that's why I say in some of my other courses and in my other videos is if one, you know them. There's a little bit of change of terminology. The control names are different, but if one, you know them all, okay. So this one is dealing with boundary defense, and this is maintaining an inventory of what is in your network.
What you need to know what's in your network. And to do this, you do things like scanning. You do things like denying certain communications from going to certain IPS. You have to control your boundary. In depth is used quite a bit with this one, but boundary defense and this one maps directly to network control.
That's in the ISO 27,001. Okay. Let's keep going here. Let's keep keeping it high level. There's a lot of things that we're going over, cuz we want to keep this high level. Okay. N the CIS control, 13 data protection. What does this one deal with? This is maintaining an inventory of sensitive information removing sensitive data or systems not regularly accessed by the organization.
Anything you don't need, we're gonna get rid of it. And making sure the sense of, data's not floating around out there, which is how a lot of data gets.  and ISO 27,001 has addresses this in several different controls. One is classification of information. Another one is network controls, another one's electronic messaging.
And another one is mobile device policies. And there's a few others, but we are gonna keep going. All right. So C I S 14, this one deals with controlled access controlled access. On on the need to know. And so this one is segmenting the network based on sensitivity, enable fi enabling firewall filtering for between VLANs.
And this sounds a lot like PCI compliance. So PCI compliance also maps to the CIS. PCI I'm, talking about PCI DSS, that's protection of credit cards and the credit card industries and retail retailers and hotels use this quite a bit. So they have to actually go through an audit and assessments and stuff for all of their card readers.
So for this one, you have the same thing. ISO 27,001 has segmentation of network. Network control. You can see them, them using the same ones. Theirs is just broken up differently. So they group a lot of, the controls together. Let's keep going here. We don't have that many more to go.
We're on 15 CIS control 15, which is wireless access control. So this one, as you would suspect it, it's disabling access points that are not used if they're not required detecting wireless access points. That are connected to the wired network and, taking an inventory of all your wireless stuff.
And so this is covered in ISO 27,001 in the inventory of assets and the network controls and the acceptable use of AC of, assets. Let's keep going here to the CIS 16. And I think we only have two or three left here, but CIS controls 16. Account monitoring and control. So in, in N 800, And in this 800, you have this one is AC two, a C one C three.
When you're doing account control and account management and things like that, this one is in CIS control 16. So how does this map? Two 27,001. Control. In the inventory of assets, that's where they control it in ISO 27,001. They also cover it in policy on the use of crypto cryptographic controls and control network controls and user registration.
And deregistration so you can see it's just broken up. They're covering the same topics, but it's broken up into different parts. Now let's keep going to CI. Control 17. And I wanna say this is the last one. Let me see. 18, 19 20. Okay. There's only three more left. All right. 17 we'll just quickly go through these implementation of security awareness training.
Self-explanatory you do have the same thing on ISO 27,001. It's literally called information security awareness, education and, training. Same. Okay, so we're gonna go to 18 and 18 is application software security. That's making sure that you're, whenever you're developing software is developed securely and is, establishing secure coding practices.
And you have the same thing over ISO ISO 27001, which is a secure development policy. Whenever you're developing the actual software, you have to develop it securely. Okay. Then we go into 19, which is incident response. This is a big one. This is also in IR in the IR controls, IR 1, 2, 3, and 4 in the NIST 800.
But how does this map over to ISO 27001? They have something called responsibilities and procedures. And they have reporting information, security events, and con contacting authorities. All right. Onto pen testing. So this is CIS control 20. This is penetration testing and red team exercises. And this one, I don't know, this one actually doesn't have a comparable ISO 27001 control, which is.
Very shocking and that pretty much covers all the maps between CIS controls and ISO 27,001. And we also mentioned a couple of N 800 controls and I'll catch you guys on the next podcast.
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Convocourses Podcast: Long Vacation

 
Hey guys, this is Bruce and welcome to another convo course of this podcast. And today I want to talk to you guys about what's been going on in the last few months. I've been able to actually travel while I was between jobs and because I have a high-paying cyber security job, I had one anyway. I was able to quit.
My job. I had some family issues like I had to take care of. And my, job was, it was a very high level high stress job. So I was a consultant for all these different organizations and it was just, it was really stressful. And I had all these severe family issues that I needed to take care of. And the, actually the corporation that I worked for was really, kind.
And my boss was, took me aside and said, Hey man, if whatever you need we'll, let you. Had to let check a sabbatical and all that kind of stuff, which was very kind, very sweet very good company actually. But the, problem was I had so much travel and I was, I'm a remote worker there, but it was just too much travel.
So I couldn't make that match what I was doing with my home life. So I, went ahead and just, I had to leave, but in between I knew I was gonna get another job. Actually, my.  Side hustles have been doing so good. I thought maybe that I could just live off of that for some time, but the medical stuff was too high  to the medical here in the us is really bad if you didn't know.
Anyway, so neither here nor there. I couldn't afford to actually live off of my. My businesses and my all my income streams and stuff. So I'm processing, as in processing stuff, I've did a whole bunch of interviews and everything. I learned quite a bit more about the current state of getting jobs in cyber security.
But I was able to get one pretty fast and it was, I was able to get something I really wanted. So a hundred percent remote position making the kind of money I wanna make. And for, and just to give you guys some social proof.  what I've been doing. These, if you go to TikTok, a lot of the stuff I posted on TikTok was there's a lot of these videos that I did directly from my travels.
Here's let me show you one. Here's one right here where I'm on. I'm in Manila beach, I think so. Yeah. That's Manila beach right there. That's the embassy behind me in Manila. So yeah just did a whole bunch of videos. I was gonna. I was gonna go to all these other sites. I was gonna go to Bali and go to Singapore and, places like that.
But I, I just didn't, we had some issues with the flights. So I was just, I just ended up staying in the Philippines the whole time, but I just wanted to let you guys know, like what's possible because I was I'm working this high level job was able to save some money and able to go. Actually take a break for three months.
I've been off of work for three months and I could afford it because I just had, I had money and savings. I had all these other resources that I created. And so that's why I, was able to do it, but now I'm going back to work and everything. And I'm not sad about it, but I, would've been a lot happier if my business would've been able to support me and sustain my family for that whole time.
But unfortunately  unfortunately not . So yeah, thanks everybody for watching me doing this live once again on, on the podcast. And I wanted to talk to you guys about a few things, show you my, new podcast and where that stuff is at. I'm gonna show you the new book that I have. That's coming out to show you to do exactly what I've been doing.
It's gonna break all that stuff down and give you a preview of what that's all.  and and then I'll just answer some questions. We'll just, we'll keep it loose on this one. Let me show you another picture. This is me. I, was on a rooftop hotels, like a resort. It was really nice.
And I'm just telling, talking about showing like me actually doing it and. I've been able to do it by marketing myself. So that's what this video's all about. The video just shows me on the rooftop, jumping in a pool having a good life I wanna show other people how to do it.
Exactly what I did. It really works, but let me show you gonna be a book about marketing yourself in cyber security, how to create a resume in cyber security in particular, but it, you can also use it for it or whatever field you're in. Really like the techniques will work in any field, but I want to focus on cyber security cuz that's where that's what I've been doing for the last 20 years.
So cyber security and it jobs resume marketing. I'm gonna put this on Amazon. I'm gonna put this on my own personal website and I'll, there'll be two different versions and I'll have an audio version of this book. And what I'm gonna talk about is essentially how to get a path, how create a path in cyber security, cuz there's many cyber security is a huge field.
So whenever somebody says, oh, I'm want to get in cybersecurity. It's okay what, exactly do you wanna do in cyber security? Cuz there's forensics. There's incident responders, there's cyber security analysts, there's security compliance people. There's information to security officers.
There's engineers, architects, there's CIO, CSOs. There's all different kinds of roles and different kinds of fields within. Within cyber security, crypto cryptography is also a part of considered a part of cyber security as well. So it's just a huge field and it depends on what you're doing.
Yeah, here's the book it's gonna talk about, like the format you should use. I'm basically showing everything I've been doing and it's really been world. You wanna be spoon fed that stuff and ask me questions directly. Then that's the course expected results. All I do is talk about what, I'm experiencing.
Like I get calls all the time. I can name my price. If I want to go. If I'm willing to travel, I can name my price. I, tell you how to create a profile, how to put yourself out on all these sites and then how to get all the continuous calls. And not only that, but how to.  Get the actual format that you need.
That's gonna sell yourself. That's gonna be able to be digestible by all these organizations and employers who want you. They're looking for people right now. Cyber security is a huge field and we really don't have enough people doing it. Unfortunately, it's getting so crazy that they're even taking in a lot more entry level people than before.
There's lots of opportunities if you've been watching my, my, if you watched my last podcast, I talked about how those out there. And here, they are right here so far. If you want this directly from the site, go, if you happen to be watching me on YouTube, you can click on the link description below, and then it'll go to this site right here, but it's combo courses dot podcast, pod bean.com.
And, you'll find it there. All right. Let me see, what else do I need to talk about? What else do I need to talk about? Oh yeah. So that book that I'm writing a cyber security book. That's gonna tell you exactly what I've been doing to market myself and get a lot of different opportunities to get into cyber security and information technology in general.
So I'm constantly getting emails, messages, text calls all day long. Maybe I'll probably get an average of.  with everything probably six or seven on average a day. Sometimes it's way more. It's actually quite annoying. And now that I actually chose a job, I have to turn all that stuff off. It's just so many opportunities.
It's a good problem to have to constantly be sorting through all of these different jobs and stuff. And out of those tons of jobs out of a hundred jobs they're, probably about 30 of them or not 13 of them that I'm. Or yeah, this is a good one. I'm gonna do an interview with this, with these guys so that's what I'm gonna show you guys how to do, but the second book, it's gonna be a two book series.
The second book is gonna be based off of this. What you see here on the screen. If you happen to be listening to me, this is the nice framework. So this is an organization called the national initiative for cyber security, careers and studies. These guys have been around for quite some time and what they did.
Brilliant. They broke down all the main categories of cyber security in the cyber security workforce. And these categories include there's seven of them and analyze, collect and operate, investigate, operate, and maintain, oversee, and govern, protect, and defend. And then securely provision. And let me just show you like what this is all about.
Like you might be like what, does this have to do with your book? Let me just explain to you, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna break this down and make it so that it's understandable to, to everybody, like I'm gonna relate this directly to your, you getting a job, because like I said, cyber security is a huge field.
What these guys did was they broke it all down. If you go to this site, it's like a huge database.  and they have specialty areas in each category, right? So what I'll do I take you to my category? So my category is called oversee and govern. And so this is where a lot of managers, cyber security management, executive cyber cyber leaders are at legal advice, policy procedures, things like that, education, all that kind of stuff, because.
It's not usually hands on type stuff. It's more of you're overseeing what's going on. You're making sure everything is being going in the right direction. So my specialty is really this one right here, which is security information system, security managers, and then they have different work roles that, that breaks this breaks in further down into work roles.
And so it has abilities knowledge, skills, tasks. And, other things that you need to know, if you're trying to get into this actual work role and it, furthermore, what you can do is, and what I'll do in my book is I break this down into even relate it to directly, to like LinkedIn and indeed and all that stuff.
So you can see direct correlation between the categories. That they've broken down here. And actually the categories that are in all cyber security that's cuz that's what they did. They just took seven categories and said, okay, this is how cyber security breaks up. And then they broke that down further into specialized skills.
And then they broke those into work roles.  so I'm gonna take this stuff and relate it directly to how you can take stuff from indeed stuff from LinkedIn and find your niche that you can actually get into in cyber security. And then once you find your niche, once okay, I wanna be in information security officer.
I want to be an information security. I wanna be a COMSEC manager. Then what I'll do is I'll show you how to find. What exact degree you need, if you need one, cause some, don't even need a degree, bro. Some don't even need a degree. Some like just need specific skills, but it'll tell you exactly what skills you need.
Exactly what keywords to use on your resume. Exactly. What everything time you can check out this site is, that. Let me see if I can give you guys the link here. If you go to actually, if you go to Google and just type in cyber security workforce, nice. In N I C E, that right there will guide you to this site that I'm showing that I'm, that you see here.
It's pretty robust. There's a lot of things going on with this site, cuz these guys are very, active and the department of defense. As well as DHS and all these different agencies use these guys as a reference to know exactly what skills and tasks that are needed to do cyber security. Federal government relies on this, what you see here very heavily.
So that's why I decide to make a book about it, to boil it down its stuff, practical knowledge that you can use for your career. Two book series gonna tell you how to market and then how to get the proper career path of what, you want in this field. All right. Let's get into some questions.
This was not gonna be too long of a podcast. I'm going to go to, I've got a lot of questions popping up in TikTok. Shockingly enough. I did not expect this, but I've got about 2000 followers there so far and. A bunch very, active a lot of questions here, but let me see if I can answer a couple before I leave.
Lemme see here, if you're interested in following me on TikTok, just go to combo courses, go to TikTok and then search combo courses. Okay. So it says, somebody asked me I'm in the healthcare field and I'm. Trying to go with the security plus and the H C I S P which is like a healthcare cyber security certification from ISD two squared to stay relevant.
Any tips? Yeah. So this is great. Like this, is an awesome, and I'm gonna make another video about this specifically on TikTok, but I wanted to speak to this on with the podcast. For this as you're going to security, plus, as you're going to H C I S P I would actually do some labs in your house.
One of the best things, one of the most, one of the best ways to go deeper. And into this subject is actually have a lab in your house lab. That means get a separate computer, or you can actually do it on your computer that you use, get your laptop, your whatever workstation you use in your house. And you can use something called VMware and you can put different operating systems on that computer.
Or you can just buy a whole nother computer, build it from scratch, and then put the security features on that. That's a little bit more expensive with VMware. It allows you to I, don't think it's more in about 200 bucks VMware itself the software sounds, and that sounds pretty expensive, but you're investing in yourself.
So just think of it like that. You're investing in yourself, VMware. It works, but for now, I'm just gonna go to the site just to show you how you can create a lab, on your computer. So VMware is a virtual manager and it will, it's an application that sits on.  system on your computer, and then you can upload like Linux on it.
You can have different versions of windows. You can have Mac all on the same computer, and then you can network 'em together. And it's really cool. It's a really great way to learn how to do whole space firewalls. You can actually, I think you can even put like different firewalls on it. You can put a NAS on it, a firewall.
You can have whole little tiny network. If you wanna do this for free. If you like, especially if you're in a networking, there's another thing you can do called GNS three. This is something I used to use to, to practice for CCNA G I used to have a CCNA. I used to be huge into network.  it's been a while.
So  G N S three. So GNS three is actually is free. The only thing that's gonna cost you is your time to figure it out because it's, like a open, last time I checked it, it was an open source simulator. That simulates network environments. Really, cool. It's actually free. Oh, is it not free anymore software that empowers it free download.
It's not free. It looks like it's not free. It. Why is this site all fancy now? Oh man.  they do this. They put it out for free for a while. Wire shark used to be free too. I think I wanna say NEIS it was even free at one time. Yeah. Look, how many people use this? Anyway, so you download GNS three and it's a virtualized network and you can literally set up a little it's so cool.
Like it's this is one of another, one I like to do like a demonstration of it's really, cool. It allows you to configure log in and configure routers and switches and. Messing around with routing protocols and all kinds of stuff is really cool. So yeah, I would, that would be my advice to you is if you're going for a security plus a H C I S P and you're trying to get into this field, especially if you don't have experience, create a lab, put it on your laptop, start messing around with it.
So you can then start to understand the inner workings of it. All right. Next question. Dru says, Bruce, in your opinion, what is the most, what is a acceptable salary range for a new is SM or is O so it really depends. That's a great question. By the way, it really depends on where you're at in the United States.
And here's why I say that because if we type in ISO pay scale ISO pay scale, watch. It's gonna it's they have a price range, but it really depends. What you'll notice is it depends on what area you're in and it also depends on what, clearance you have, what's the organization. What you're seeing here is, typical of somebody with experience one 30 and these are in Colorado, California, and cer and I think this is Connecticut.
What I wanna see is the actual pay scale. Here it is. So the national average is over a hundred thousand dollars, $56 an hour. That's the national average. Now what this doesn't factor in, I don't think is how many years of experience the person has or if they have other additional certifications or things like that.
National average, that's pretty good for a national average. If you think about it, cuz that takes into account. All the way, the high, the highest level of pay down to the lowest levels of pay. Let me see, if I can find some more. Okay. The national average in Colorado, where I'm at the average is about one twenty three, a hundred twenty 3000.
And that's about right. That's about right. And independent on how much more experience you have. It'll be more. And I could tell you that if you're in the Virginia area, this is low, like 100. Is low, but I, would say it's around this. This is about right. For somebody starting off from scratch, you might come in lower.
If you've, if you have zero experience with it and you're coming in off like maybe you had some experience in the military or something like that. I, could tell you my first job outside the military as an ISSO I had a bachelor's degree, but I didn't have the required certifications.
They required a CI S P at the time. And I didn't have one. So what they did was they just brought me in and said, look, you have X amount of time to get a, cert this certification. Can you do it? I said, yes. So they hired me at 60, 60,000, 62,000, something like that, but which was very low. And, but keep in mind that this was how many years.
Damn. It's been a long time. 10, 15 years ago. It was like 15 years ago. So 10 years ago that's quite a bit of wild that's dang, 2004, 2006. Damn. That was a long time ago. 14 years ago. Wow, man. Time flies, anyway. Yeah, that was like 14 years ago. It's obviously the price has gone up so 70 between, okay.
Let me give you a range. If you are a new, is. A new information system, security manager or information security officer will say, officer first, cuz manager is different. Manager's a whole different range. Let's say an information system, security officer. The range is between, I wanna say depends on where you are in the United States, but I wanna say it's gonna be between about 70 and a hundred.
That's about right. For a new person. Now keep in mind. They know your value, especially once you start getting those certifications. So what you wanna do is no matter what they're paying you, when you get in, get a certification, a security plus a, CI S P a CI S a C risk get some sort of I would highly recommend a professional level security, cert like a CASP, a CI S P a C risk, a CIS, a one of those.
Not easy search by the way. And they do cost you, but once you get that, yeah you'll, be over. You'll be able to switch to another position, new job, somewhere as an ISSO that, or they'll pay you to stay and you'll be able to make over 115, at least 115 or, more. So that should answer that question.
Now you also ask a question about CI SM, which is a different position. CI SMS are usually the supervisors of a CI. C I S O a is SS O man I'm slipping. So an is SM is usually a manager of an is S O so let me show you what I'm talking about here. Managers are usually gonna make a little bit more cuz they're managers, but let's see if I'm not lying to you.
See if I can find the average of a okay. It's not coming up here. I don't know why. Oh, is he trying to search just in Colorado? What is up with that? Okay, let me go back one to see if I could find the average okay. Keeps wanting to search in Colorado USA or what I'm doing is I'm on zip recruiters and I'm looking at their, they've got a, like a little breakdown.
of this. So actually let's let's get outta this. Let's go, back to Google and find another management position. I, guess it's lumping it right in with ISS O okay. And actually the saying is lower for some reason that's inconsistent. Oh, okay. The No, This is saying it's a little bit lower.
That's weird. Which I don't think is correct because a ISSM is a manager, typically, especially in the federal government they, have two different positions. Like one is ISS, M will usually be over ISS OS and they'll usually be the person who signs for the, is S O and manages the ISO's work. So they usually make more, it's usually like a management type.
so that is that's incorrect. I would say is probably in more in the range of one 20 to one 40 and on up. So for an ISSM man glass door is even saying it's lower. That's not been my experience. Oh, okay. No glass door saying the average. For an ISSM is one 20. Yep. So there you go. That, was my guess would be more like one 20.
It is up the scale goes up like 10,000, something like that, just cuz you can see here that they're saying that the, average low on the low end is about 67 to 80. And all the way up to $290,000 is insanity. But yeah, so that's about right. 1, 1 20 is what I was saying. ISSM is gonna make, okay. Let me see if there's any other questions here.
I got some folks watching the stream here, watching the podcast, listening to the podcast. VMware GNS three are, golden for learning. Yeah. Apple work. Yeah, for sure. Okay, let me see if there's other questions. I have so many questions popping up on TikTok. It's very, active for questions. Somebody called me a scam.
It's free stuff. I give away, man. I don't know what people are thinking to be honest with you. Which is the best path for an at home job jobs only. Okay. So somebody asked me, I've had this question before, what are the best jobs? For at home jobs, remote work, what are the best, I guess it jobs, information, system, security, officer jobs.
Information security, cyber security type jobs, or it jobs for work from home these days after COVID I would've had a different a different thing to say about this, but these days mostly. Let me put it to you this way. I can tell you what jobs are, not compatible with remote work.
Let me start from there because nowadays you can do so many jobs, remotely and, more organizations and employers are now more open to remote work, which is I've been doing this before. COVID so it was a lot harder to get remote work before this. Anyway Jobs that are not conducive to remote work would be classified positions.
In my opinion, in my experience if, you're in a classified environment, if you're trying to get work at a especially if it's secret and above it's, harder to have a hundred percent remote. Normally what they'll do at, the most they'll have a a flex position.  flex hours are flex.
I can't remember what they call it, but basically it's like a hybrid That's what they call it. So they'll say, okay, two days out of a week, you can be at home. And then the other three days out the week work of the work week, you have to be at the site or two days are vice versa, like two days on the site and then three days off site.
So they'll do stuff like that. But see, the thing is you have to.  There, you have to be on site a lot of times to do the site, the security stuff the, classified stuff. But that being said there's, actually some people like a friend of mine, really good friend of mine. He was telling me about how there's this innovative new technology where you can actually do even classified work from home jobs.
So even that is gonna be work from home more and more and I'm talking about all the way up to Ts and he, once he explained to me how that's done I was, my mind was blown. I was like, holy crap. That makes sense. But anyway, most of those jobs right now are normally you can't do those remotely.
Another one that's deceptive are jobs where you have to travel a lot. The problem with those is they'll say, oh, it's a hundred percent remote, but. You're traveling so much that doesn't even matter, like some of the consulting and some of the professional services jobs, they require you to go on site.
If, they, if it's over, I'll put it to you like this. If the travel is over, if it's over 50%, then you're gonna be traveling a lot because you gotta factor in. Probably add another 20% for the travel days. Yeah. So if it's over, if it's 50 if it's even close to 50%, that is CR that is a lot of travel.
Like you, I, cuz I did a job like that and I was constantly on the road and the only time.  I think mine was 60 to 75% travel. I was never home. I was never home. would come home for the weekend and then I was off again, like I'd have a three day weekend and I'd be traveling for the rest of the week. So it was brutal, man.
It was work from home, but I just, I was traveling all the time. So if it's any of those jobs and normally the other one I would say, okay, so we talked about classified jobs. Normally those are on site or some kind of a hybrid.  Those are changing, but most of the jobs are you're gonna have to go on site.
The other one would be consulting where you're traveling a lot, cuz you have to go to all these different places. And then the other one would be if they really want you to have FaceTime with the customer. And that usually requires being on site, those off the top of my head, the ones that out of all the ones I've been offered that I've worked at personally, that's been my experience.
But if you guys can name any other places where it's pretty much, you have to be on site field text. That's another one that one's not gonna be well it's it says it is gonna, it can be remote, but you're traveling so much that it might as well not be remote cuz you're never home. Yeah.
Hope that answers your questions. Most jobs off the top of my head. Cyber, a lot of cybersecurity jobs can be done remotely. Remote administration, you can do system administrator jobs, a lot of those remotely. You can do networking a lot of those networking jobs, remotely configuring firewalls, monitoring traffic.
A lot of those you can do remotely. Just name something. Most of 'em you can do remotely. It really depends on the organization. So just keep that in mind. Okay. Let me keep going.  okay. Somebody said it is back on the topic here. Somebody said it is difficult to to impossible to get a fully remote. There is zero chance that I would work and take the added risk of doing classified work remotely.
Yeah. So the technology that was in place was it was like a virtual machine, nothing stored on your computer, basically. It's you're seeing, it's like you're seeing images. Like your whole desktop and everything is just images that you're seeing. But the, risk for me is that if you're in your house, you've got things like you've got other what if your daughter is on the phone over here?
And they have their phone they're on speaker phone and you happen to be doing a you're on a secure line on. System and you're doing classified work and then they can hear what you're saying, so there's a possibility of a security incident because it got leaked to somebody. I don't know.
There's just I'd be nervous about it myself to be honest with you Dru says after C or it travel jobs still plentiful. Yes. I know the go.  in the government for the government. It has slowed down quite a bit. Yet there's still a lot of travel jobs, but you're right. There's a lot of customers and clients.
And the last job I worked at without giving too much away last job I worked at I I was a, consultant. I was a cyber security consultant and we would, our biggest part of, one of the biggest part of our jobs is that we would have, we'd have all these assessments and we would. To a site.
We, we would go to the site and we'd do physical assessments and we'd do wireless assessments. You have to be on the site for those. So we would go there and sit down with the facility manager and ask them, que interview them and then walk around the facility and all this kind of stuff. And then you'd do a report like you say, okay you're good here.
Good. Here you have a checklist, all that kind of stuff. But a lot of clients were like, nah, you can't come to our site or you can come to this site, but you can't come to this site. So you have a point because of COVID travel has been. Restricted, but there is, it's starting to open up quite a bit lately.
Like right before I left, they were opening things up. Like it, it was opening up like crazy because Mo most places in the us are opening up with the exception of there's a few places. Like we had some overseas places that were still pretty, pretty locked down, pretty tight.
Exactly skiffs are skiffs for a reason.  yeah. Okay. Let me see if I can answer if there's any other questions here. Tons of questions and interactions on TikTok. I'm really surprised about TikTok. Somebody asked me, okay, this is a good question. Couple questions that are related. Somebody asked me if they can do cyber security at age 30 and another person asked me if they could do it at age 45.
And I would say. As a matter of fact, cybersecurity lends itself to a more mature minded person. Because you have to do a lot of interaction. As a matter of fact, like this career field is pretty old.  I don't say so myself, but the last place I worked at I wasn't the youngest guy, but I I'm pushing 50 man.
Like I, I, wasn't the youngest guy there and.  so I was not the youngest or the oldest guy there. So it, this career path needs more mature people because you're dealing with pretty heavy, issues. And you're having to talk to, you have to have the maturity, the emotional intelligence to talk to high level, cyber security CISOs and C level execs and stuff.
And then you gotta be able to switch gears and then talk to a technical.  and because of that, it lends itself to a more mature type of person who can handle, stress and not freak out. And who've been around the block enough to know, okay. Yep. Don't worry. Like we got this and not panic.
So you need somebody with a cool hand. And a lot of times even me, I've been doing this for 20 years, but August school, like the last place I worked at, there were, so there were people there who were masters at this and I'm like, I man, these guys were running circles around me. I thought I was pretty good at presentations and stuff, man they were killers.
They just like something bad would happen. Something horrible in cyber security. So many bad things could happen that we're in the business of preventing bad things from happening to your assets. Something would happen and the client would lose their damn minds and they'd be a younger.
Who can't handle any kind of pressure and they freak out and they they'd freak out and then have another person, like my mentor, who was at that job, that person would just be calm and just calm them down. Just talk 'em off the ledge, negotiate with them. And then next thing you know, they're no longer holding hostages like they were.
So good at speaking to cus clients and customers, and that level of maturity is, really necessary. Yeah, 45, like as long as you can get the concepts down, as a matter of fact if you don't wanna do another two years of if you don't want to sit down and do two years of learning all this new it, you could actually do something like a program.
Project manager is actually a really great position for an older person. Project manager is. Compliance the stuff I'm doing something like that. Something where you're not super like in the weeds, technically, because there's a lot going on with like firewalls are constantly evolving and changing.
And like a web technology is constantly evolving, changing, and man, to keep up with the server technology it's constantly going constantly moving constantly and you're having to constantly hit the books and stuff. So that could be. As you get older, you have all this other stuff going on in your life.
Whereas youngsters they're just now coming in and taking on new responsibilities. So the work is everything for them. They don't have maybe they have one kid or something, but they don't have necessarily grandkids or five kids or whatever, so they have, they can devote more of their time to this learning this new technology and stuff.
But if you, I would highly recommend especially if you're older,  you already have done two or three different career paths and you're doing this so you can retire and, live a simpler life. Man I would recommend project management get P and, also it really needs more mature people like people who can handle pressure and not freak out people who are calm as a cucumber, this calm, this, and they can just work in any environment because they've, seen some. So they got that, that thousand yard stairs. We used to call it in the military. They've seen some shit so older people like, yeah, I, it is, you could definitely do this as an older person. All right. I think that's it guys.
Thanks for watching. I've been talking for about 30 minutes. I'm gonna try to do more like one offs like this, instead of just doing 'em once a week more Podcast. And if you're interested in hearing a lot more, cuz I actually post more stuff on on audio go to combo courses.podbean.com or checking the link description below and you'll have more access to all the stuff that I put out.
In some old podcasts I've been posting. All right guys, that's it for this one. Thank you so much. De truth. Thank you. S V T. Thanks for all the questions on TikTok.
 

Convocourses Podcast: Cybersecurity to Study in 2021 SCA Resume

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Hey, happy new year, everybody.  This is a podcast for combo courses, and today we're gonna be talking about  we got some, a few questions that, that have been  asked of me. I've got a resume to go through. And  I wanna talk to you guys about 20, 21 and what  what I'm gonna be studying this year  as a focus for like certifications or just sharpening my skill and some things that I would recommend that you  look at too.
Cause I think it's  looking forward five years ahead.  What I think is gonna happen as far as our industry is concerned, cyber security or  data analysis and things like that. And so let's get started. So the first thing I wanna talk to you guys about is some of the things that I'm gonna study in 2021, the things that I think that  are gonna be relevant going forward in the future.
And let me just switch my screen here to show you the very first thing.  that I wanna show you is  blockchain technology. This is  something I think that's gonna be more and more re relevant. If you've been watching the news, you've been seeing cryptocurrency going  off the rails lately. And a lot of this technology  the money is based on blockchain.
And I don't think that this technology's going away. It has all the hallmarks of what I saw with cloud computing many years ago, and everybody kept  talking about it and it just kept coming up over and over again. It's really the same  trends I'm seeing  where all these gigantic companies and all these giant organizations are really  dipping their toe in a blockchain technology and very quickly what it  is a basically it's a digital ledger.
It's a distributed digital ledger that allows you to basic you, you can essentially  you. , you don't have to have a middleman. It allows you to not have a middleman because there's something there's a, normally, if you like a, with a bank, for example, a bank is a middleman to your money.  Your money is there.
You have to go to the bank to get your money, but with a digital ledger, basically, essentially your money is out there on the web and distribute. It's all over the place it's distributed and encrypted  so that you can access it. And it has  it's a cure. It allows you to be anonymous and  and it's something, it validates it so that you can't, you people can't say that they didn't make that a payment or could, or didn't get a payment.
It's immutable. That's what that means. So the technology is emerging  slowly but surely  and not just cryptocurrency by the way, but also    for things like logistics. And even  voting can be done with the blockchain, many other  things that we use every day can be used with blockchain technology.
And so that's why I'm gonna be studying more on this    the actual technology behind it    as opposed to just  cryptocurrency for the sake of making money and investments and things, that's a whole separate issue. Blockchain itself does much more than just  money and essentially, like what, another thing that you should know about blockchain technology is that  let me see Oracle starting to use it.
 Walmart is starting to use it and  many different  other organizations and governments are start.  Dip their toe in this technology. And it looks a lot like  what cloud technology was looking like about 10 years ago. All right. Another thing I'm gonna be studying very heavily is cyber threat intelligence.
This is becoming  much more important  to anybody who does cyber security and what this is from a high level is it's. If you have a customer or if you have an org you're in an organization, either one and you're protecting someone's assets, their laptops, their servers, their information, their personnel, you're protecting their assets.
Cyber threat intelligence is where you  do recon to see if anyone is. Looking into trying to break into those assets and the way you would, one of the ways that you could do it is to have a cyber threat intelligence  cyber threat intelligence system that goes out and checks the dark web checks  the internet to see who's talking about your organization.
 Does anybody have your, the  IPS of your organization or is anybody scanning your organization? So you're looking for where people are trying to get into your organization,  a preemptive you're. You're doing preemptive checks to see if there's anyone trying to get  into your systems.
This is gonna be  really more and more important  as technology becomes  even more important in our, in all of our lives. If you looked at the recent gigantic hacks that are going on, state sponsored hacks are happening. And the one of the ways to.  to have some kind of defense against the state  funded  state sponsored actors is to actually do cyber threat intelligence.
See if anybody has been CA  casing the joint,  scanning  your network scanning and see if you have any vulnerabilities out there. So cyber threat intelligence is something I'm gonna really dive into this year, and that's gonna start off with  with  things like  ethical hacking, and then I'm gonna get into cyber threat intelligence, cuz you  gotta know a little bit about ethical  hacking and stuff to actually know a deep, have a deeper understanding of what threat intelligence is.
And another thing I'm gonna dive into this year and I've  put it off way too long is cloud computing technology. And this is something I talk about a lot  on this channel and  it is just getting more and more important. Like it's not going away. It's just.  it's really become a centerpiece of all of our lives  whether you know it or not.
If you've, if you watch Netflix, if you use Gmail, if you use Hotmail , if you, whatever you use, like most of these gigantic technologies are using cloud technologies on the back end. So it's just becoming more and more important. And me as a cyber security person, I need to know have a deeper understanding of  what that is all about.
So those are the things that I'm gonna study this year for 2021, and  possibly get certifications in some of these technologies  and actually it's become a required couple. Two of those things on that list that I just mentioned to you are, have become a requirement for the job that I work at, that  I have to actually  get a certification in 'em.
So this is  something that, that I'm definitely gonna do.    And I think. These tell those three things are gonna become more and more important in the next five to 10 years. All right. Let me  see if I got anything else. I see a few people watching me. If you guys have any questions, let me know.
I'll give you guys time here. If anybody wants to chime in, I've got a few people who've asked me questions and a few people who've asked me to actually look at their resume. So I'm gonna actually do that. Let me see if I can find a good one to look at here. The first one I'm gonna look at is going to be from the, I changed the names, just so you know, change the names and  the addresses and everything on there.
So there's no need to worry about that. I'm gonna look at this resume right here. And what I like to do is I will.  get, put my suggestions in there sometimes  the resumes are so good. I don't really have much to say about it, but it's just like little tweaks and stuff of what I've done on my own personal resume to give them some, to give them some extra juice, some Google juice on that resume  and  my mindset is that I market myself.
And so I encourage anybody, any of my students, anybody who follows me to do the same thing, you gotta market yourself. It's very important in this day and age, there's just so many people. And there's so many competitors out there for you. There's so many other eyeballs on other different resumes that you gotta put yourself.
You gotta set yourself apart by advertising yourself, marketing yourself. Okay. So this is coming from Mike and he's in the DMV area and he is  a senior assessment and authorization engineer. Okay. All right.  I've never heard that. Title before, but  that's good.  If just one suggestion I would make here is if you're Mar if you're looking for a different job, I would, one of the things that I do is I put some more  more common, a more common name out there.
So this to me sounds like it's  and I could be wrong here, but one of the things that he could do is say, he's a security, and I'm gonna read through the resume. This might change. I would suggest I'll just say suggestion is to have the title of this, be a security control  assessor. And the reason why I would say that is because the security control assessor is a more common name  for this type of work.
But then I, this might be something I've not. I'm not familiar with authorization engineer, but  it is just not something  I've heard people use in my industry. So that's why I I would recommend they do this now. This is good. They put active top secret clearance. That's really, that's excellent.
 You, do you definitely wanna put any kind of clearances that you have here?  Up top, because that's  a very marketable thing to have   that immediately eliminates 80% of the people who are gonna compete against you. So that's a  very good thing to put on a resume.  Let me see, I'm gonna read the top part of this qualification profile.
This is pretty good to have, like whenever you're marketing yourself  because places like LinkedIn will have an area where you can put stuff like this, but what I normally do is I take advantage of it by putting as many keyword as possible inside of this profile. You don't want it to just be flowery and sound good.
You want it  to hit 'em right in their teeth. You know what I mean? You want 'em to grab their attention immediately with a bunch of keywords. So they said concept and execution con concept to execution focus, systematic profe. I would not put any of this stuff in here. Okay. I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna suggest some things here.
I'm just gonna suggest some stuff I'm gonna say.  Now I'll have to read the, what I'll do is I'll read through the resume. I'll come back and fix this up, but it's just way too flowery for me. Like I would not, if I was reading this, I would just skip right by it  cuz I want to know what they can do core competencies.
These are good. But  another thing that I do personally is I take this and I put it at the end, any kind of listing stuff like that.  I put it at the end.
 Cuz it will get picked up by the search engines. That's the reason why I do it.   But when I'm reading through it, I want to very quickly know  know what their education is, cuz that's normally a show stopper or a show  it gets the show on the road if they know, okay, this guy has a bachelor's degree.
That's one of the requirements. He has a C I SM certification. That's one of our requirements. So you wanna  very quickly  have all the main things up here. Now   this dude's actually got a great resume here. He's got some great set of skills. So another thing I do is I would put your top certification right up top, like this C S M I would say, is this top certification?
I would say I would put it right up here. Not trying to brag or anything, but I am a CI SM. And  maybe you put the number in there cuz this is gonna be. Guaranteed a requirement. That's gonna  this certification right here can replace things like C I  S P and some other  large level high, sorry, large high level security certifications that  that he has.
And then the cast is also a really good one. But I think  the C I SM is  a better, has a, is better, is a higher level. It's more, no more people know about the C I S M I should say. Okay. So he's got a ethical hacker certification. That's also a good one. I would, that's another one you might wanna put up here as well.
That's a very marketable certification, a lot of pen testers and hackers  really look down upon the C, but I'm telling you it's very marketable cuz  the corporations have not gotten the memo, the government and the corporations have not gotten the memo on, on how bad this certification is. So it's very, still very marketable.
   Yeah, I would put that on top. Let's see security plus. Okay. And some other stuff. All right. Let's keep going here. Scott.  Cyber security professionals, Maryland. Oh, okay. Affiliation. I'll put this at the bottom. We wanna get to the meat. The meat  is the actual experience. So I'm gonna take this, I'm gonna put this at the bottom.
This is a great resume, by the way  this is right at this point, all I'm doing is putting my own suggestions in here  which he can  take it with a grain of salt. Like I, it, this, he could leave it just how it is and it would still be fine cuz he's got so much good stuff in here. The only thing I would  highly recommend changing is.
this right here. Cause you want this to have impact. And this to me, expert at administering desktop printers, and this is not a good impact. This is not tip in my mind if I was reading this and I was trying to hire this guy, I'd be like, eh, whatever next  I'm not trying to be mean or anything, but  just keeping it real with you guys so that you guys don't do the same kind of stuff on your resume.
 No flowers, just straight facts  keywords, stuff like that. Okay. Let's see. So job was at K force  to current. All right. Top secret clearance.  Let's see a C Splunk. Okay. This is actually  really good stuff. Support all activities on  as outlined in this 837, 1 37. Okay. All right. Not seeing a lot of impact.
But I'm seeing lots of great keyword, so that's good support all outlined in. Okay.  Review and analyze a and a as assessment and authorization.  Security controls missed overlays  experienced using administrative  administration of EAs. Okay.  So this guy, it sounds like he's like a  is O but  I'm not really sure what, cuz he names himself as a senior assessment authorization engineer.
That sounds like an ISSO. So another suggestion I would make is to possibly or use IFSO
information system security officer.  and then I'll just tell 'em here. That senior, what I'm trying to get at is it's a senior assessment and authorization engineer is uncommon, is an uncommon title is an UN uncommon title. That's all I'm trying to say. So you wanna use like a common ti, if you're gonna put a title up here, it should be a title that people know about.
And that also fuels your  your Google juice, your keyword  cuz the, and the thing, the reason why I emphasize on my courses  and whenever I do  these  resume suggestions, these are my suggestions. I'm sure other people have way better ideas than me, but these are just my suggestions.
The reason why I focus so much on keywords is because that's really what a lot of employers and a. Technical recruiters use as keywords re technical recruiters and the HR department. Who's looking for jobs and stuff. Typically  they're not a technical person in your field  every now and then a organization has the  resources to cut some technical guys loose and say, Hey, go look through all these resumes and screen some people and have 'em come in.
But typically what happens is your resources.  is your guys on the ground. You need them to actually do work.    You don't want them to go looking through a hundred resumes.  You want them to be working on cloud stuff. You want them to be analyzing data. You want them to be doing their job.
 You're gonna have. So that's why, what organizations do is they have people who are not low level workers. It's not the right term, but. HR  a screener from a whole, a third party organization, a third party company, they say, okay, look, here's our requirements. Please look through these hundreds and hundreds of different resumes and see if you can find us some good picks, just we gotta make sure that they have us    and CSM.
They have to be in information system, security officer  and see the thing is when they say we want a system security officer, they're not gonna know what a senior assessment and authorization engineer is  is that, does that make sense? So you wanna use the same language that people are using if everybody is using cyber security.
 The thing is I've been through a few iterations  of this. So first iteration, when I went into security, Everybody called the information assurance, like if you were doing risk management framework, if you were doing certification and accreditation, that's what they called it. We were called either certification and accreditation engineers, or we were called information assurance officers, or we were called like this, just  it's just an odd, that was like information AUR.
 What is that?  What they meant was security. You're security guy who does paperwork  essentially   you're a compliance guy that would make more sense, but then it evolved from information assurance to  what did they start calling it? It was information system security, then information assurance, and then they start calling cyber sec, cyber security engineer information.
 Change. And now the do D I think they are calling it like cyber surety or something like that. I don't, they keep changing the terminology, but you wanna keep up with the terminology people are using in this industry. So that way  what words to use for those HR guys or those screeners who are who's, who are looking for all these resumes.
And they're looking for that one keyword, they don't know what an information system security officer is.  All they know is that the employer said, Hey, we want an information system. And if so  make sure  that's you get this person. And so you gotta use those keywords. Okay. I'm gonna get off my  get off my soapbox here and I'm gonna continue going through some of these.
Yeah. Tony, I see your message here. Let me just finish this. Getting through this resume. This resume does not look bad by the way.  I've seen some really bad resumes. If you've been watching these for a while. I've been through a couple who were, that were really bad.  This one's actually pretty good.
It's got great keywords. My only main suggestion would be, I'd be really surprised if this doesn't get tons of offers. My only change would be to change this whole, this right here. This is just this just too much fluff.    Just get to the what. Okay. Let me just give you an example of what I would write here.
What I would do is I would say something like, cuz this guy has so much awesome skills. Let me just read through  what he's done before.  Let me see.  And now analyze  vulnerability data, multiple sources  using a cast and Splunk.    Okay.  Here's what I  would do.
I don't know how many years of experience this person has, but I would start off with my years of experience. I would say it looks like he has years of experience. Look  as a security analyst. Good Lord. Jesus. Why? What are you doing here?  What I would   I'm sorry guys.  I'm just, I'm a little frustrated.
Okay.   I would say X years of cyber security analyst work using tools such as is  Splunk. NEIS I don't know how to spell NEIS so he is gonna do a spell check NEIS.
He said a castle that's NSUs you wanna use? NSUs that's a real good tool to have.    And  let's see, EMA wait  and a grasp of
 No, not grasp, but  we wanna emphasize how much skills this guy has. Cybersecurity analyst work using tools such as eight years of experience or whatever years, experience analyst work, using tools such as Splunk S  with, okay. And okay, here we go. We'll say, and NEIS with a  with solid experience.
Implementing
 Risk management framework.
And we want to get that keyword in there. RMF, I'm gonna say N 800 also  key phrases with solid. Okay. Yeah. See, I would start off.  I wanted someone hit 'em right in their mouth.  I don't want them when they see my resume.  They're gonna stop reading all other resumes when I'm done.  That's your goal.
You want them to stop on your resume and not read another resume? Okay.    He, this dude got so much experience, like why is he saying all this fluff? That doesn't oh my God. Okay. So yeah, I would just hit him right in their mouth. Like I, okay. Then he wants to say.   Have I have a active security clearance now you might be thinking, Bruce, why are you saying clearance over?
He says it here already because we're using a different keyword. So up here, he said, active top secret clearance right here. We're saying active  security clearance. It's a, there's a difference. And we gotta spell it  by the way, there's a difference because it's a different key word. So somebody's looking for security clearance and they want you to have a  they want you to have a security, a secret clearance instead of top secret clearance.
They'll still see that you have a clearance period. They'll go, they'll be looking for a secret clearance. And they find a guy with an active top secret clearance. You know what I mean? So we wanna make the net as broad as possible. This dude's got so much incredible experience. That    there's a lot to choose from here.
 I would put something like this in here.  Okay. Okay.  Watch this. So we wanna put more about his in information security officer experience. So we wanna put ISSO with years of experience.
 See how I can't spell.  see. It's very important to do a spell check  all right.  Experience. If so with years of experience  getting  authorization to operate and with, for, and for multiple  information systems.
So I got a bunch of keyword in here. I got cybersecurity analyst. That's a keyword key phrase. We got Splunk. We got NEIS, we've got risk management framework. We've got N 800. We've got a O  we just want to hit all the buttons.  We don't want fluff. We don't. Oh, bilingual. This is a good one too.
This is  really good. And oh, by the way, I'm bilingual. Yeah. Super powerful. Bilingual opens up a ton more jobs for you. If  more than one language, any language it's gonna open up other jobs for you. So that's just something that to keep in mind. All right. So that's it with that one. I I hope that  that's helpful to, whoever's watching this  the idea behind this is  to get yourself in line with the market.
that's the whole thing. And you need  to do that. You need to tell people who you are. You gotta show people, Hey, here I am.  That's what marketing is all about. So you wanna market yourself. That's the whole, that's my whole thought process. Okay. Tony says, Hey bro, I have about seven years of compliance experience and I'm bored to say the least
I want to move into  security engineering and architect roles. How do  do you suggest I proceed? Wow. Tony  that's  I had the same experience. Like I, I had been doing it for  I don't know, 12 years or something, and I just got so bored with it. It wasn't a challenge anymore for me,  and I know that sounds ridiculous if you're getting paid  and you're, you got a secure job, but you need some kind of a stimulation. I got into it cuz I love technology,  and so I was doing this for like  years and years compliance  and I found myself losing my technical cuz I had technical skills and I started losing that because all I was doing was compliance stuff.
So I know how you feel. So what I did was I  I just jumped off a cliff man. Like I, and I don't recommend this to anybody, but this is what I did.  I took a job doing something that I was really excited about. I was looking for another position I was in between jobs and I was looking for another position and somebody off had a job overseas.
to do.  They actually, it was risk management framework.  I applied for that and I applied for another position they had for  a system security analyst.    I applied for the system security analyst and I didn't  I  of read about it. And it was talking about  using Sims and talked about using  tools like.
McAfee EPO  and  IDSS and IPS. And I was excited. I'm like, oh man, this is so cool. I've never even some of the stuff I never even touched before. So I was really wanting to get into it. So what I did was I applied for that job, as well as the risk management frame, I was fully expecting them to look at my resume for risk management and be like, okay, this is our risk management guy.
They didn't do that. They  chose me for cyber security. They looked at all of my old technical skills and they were like, okay, this guy right here  we really need somebody to do this work for cyber security analyst work. And they picked me up and they picked me up as a, like a junior cybersecurity analyst where I was learning   I wasn't like the guy, the main guy on the floor.
Doing everything. I was like, one of the people like learning different technologies and actually staring at a monitor, looking at the data, coming in, out of a network and analyzing, they taught me arc site. They taught me, which is  a SIM kind of like Splunk, a little bit of Splunk. They taught us  all these different tools, man.
I had a blast, I'm learned so much stuff, but  I had to learn, like I was like, I was fresh outta college.  had to swallow my pride and I had to  take, which I have no problem with, but I know that some older guys, especially if you've been in it for cyber security or it for a while  some of us  we've seen war zones and stuff,  so it's like, why is this kid telling me what to do? But I didn't feel that way. I was like a kid. I was like a little kid learning  like a wide-eyed little kid  oh    yeah.  Really getting into it and.  and then  my work ethic kicked in and I learned everything. I could, I absorbed as much information like a sponge.
And so I would, so that's what  what you could do. You don't have to go to another country or anything. Like I did  jump off a cliff or anything, but what you could do is just apply for  a junior level security engineering and architect role to get your beak wet  to get started  but keep in mind,  if you have seven years experience    you can't come in the door with the chip on your shoulder  oh yeah.
I already know that I've done it for 15 years and throw your weight around or no, you gotta be like a little kid,  and  that's what I love about it is that I'm learning so many things like you can like right now, if somebody, if I went to a firewall role, even though I've touched them before I know how they work and stuff, I don't know how to configure a fire.
I can't do that from scratch.  Somebody would have to sit down and teach. Like from, they'd have to teach me from the ground up. Now I'd learn very quickly cuz I have all this experience and all these other tools and stuff, but you I'd have to be open minded and learn what they're teaching me and not come in there.
Like I know everything and not knowing  I have to come in there, like I'm an intern fresh outta college and I'm willing to learn from this Pierce person. Who's more than likely younger than me,  so yeah, that's what I would do, Tony.  I know how you feel. I felt the same thing many years ago,  that path right there for the in terms of my career was a great move because now I have so many other doors and opportunities that have opened up over the years. And because I have this plethora of different experience  that I can pick from  I'm now a consultant. Like  I can consult on all these different things.
 I've touched so many different  technologies before, and I don't have to actually be an expert on each one, but I know the concept so well that I'm able to say, okay, I know how this works with this. And I can look at data and say, okay, this is what I'm seeing here    but yeah  what I would do if I was you Tony, and actually  that's what I did in the past.
 And I know how you feel. All right. I got some other questions here that some folks have contacted me about and I'm gonna answer them. So let me show you guys what I'm seeing here. Let me show you what I am seeing all. So I've got  a question. From my man. So Solomon H and he says  I received a contingent offer for wait  wait for security control assessor position.
And I'm proc I'm in the process of getting my clearance. I don't have a background in risk management framework or any cyber security compliance.  What advice can you give me? I'm relatively new in cyber security and only have one to two years experience as a system administrator. I know that my job will focus on security and privacy controls.
As I look over the, as I look over the next 853 documentation. I've enrolled in your course. And  so I can better understand an overview of how risk management framework works.  Is there anything else that you can help me with or give me any kind of guidance? Yeah, actually I really can help with this.
   I would say that  if you happen to be watching this, Sawman  as a system administrator, if you guys out there are system administrators, you should know. And especially if you're trying to go into cyber security, you should know that actually  you have many years of security experience.
So if you have set up a server before and had to put the patches on that server, that security experience, if you've ever had to do some documentation on the system that you set up  where you had to draw out a diagram, put that together and shop that around to the rest of the. The guys on  on the staff you've, that's cyber security.
 That's a little taste of all of these different things are taste of cyber security. If you've ever had to help the compliance guys out  and those guys that contact you and say, Hey, could you give me, could you give me  a blurb or some documentation about  what this security feature of the system is?
Guess what that's, you've actually assisted with cyber security compliance. If you've ever put a  secured software on the system, you put the software on there and then you had to update it. That's also cyber security, cuz you're updating the patches that could have been exploited  by a threat actor    so if you've ever put signatures on a system for anti-virus, that's also cyber security.  If you've ever.  Hard in a system like where, okay. Let's say that  the, there is a password protection on there, but it doesn't have upper and lowercase and it doesn't have, it doesn't have password complexity, but you had to go on the back end of the server and ensure that the whole organization    is enforcing  password complexity or enforcing  multifactor authentication or enforcing  audit logs to be enabled for anybody who's failed, a failed login attempts or anything.
All of those things. If you are a system, administrator are things that you could put on your, you should put on your resume as a cyber security person, cuz you have done cyber security. In fact, you have, I would argue you have done more cyber security than some. Have quote or quote unquote in cybersecurity who have not done any technical stuff.
And all they do is policy.  You've done more than them because  you're go, you're now be able to go deep in policy and deep in technical, the technical side, your skills are very much needed in this field. Now you said that you're going into security control assessments. So this is security control assessors from my interactions with them and having done this myself.
 We, the, you need a team of people who can assess different aspects of an organization.  Systems. What I mean by that is you're not just looking at documentation. You're not just looking at their security policy and saying, okay, looks like you've got  you've guys have a policy in place, and it's been updated on this and that date.
You're not just doing that. You're also ensuring that the organization is complying with their own security policies. And that means that you have to run things, do things like run scans,  so you might have to Polish up on your ability to run a necess scan or a, I don't know, name, a name, a scanner.
And you might have to know a little bit more about that, but I'm sure you'll pick that up pretty fast being a system administrator.  So that's one thing  yeah, learning the nest 800. 37 I would say  is another place to look. But if you're taking my course    that's gonna walk, that's gonna really touch on what you need to know for N 853  and N 837.
It's gonna really touch on those things.  And there's perspective of an information system, security officer. That course is actually really good for  for se, especially if you're new to that work.    Yeah, I hope  that helps.  That's a little bit of guidance for you if you're taking the course.
 If you happen to see  this  this video, Sawman any questions you have whatsoever, I actually are currently doing assessments for different organizations, so  I can help you out with that. Okay. I've got another question here. And somebody said    oh  wait.  Spade says  do you offer any mentoring  opportunities?
 Can you remind us of how.  we could work with you concerning career guidance and resumes if possible. Yes.  So spades, I get this questions like weekly now.  I do not do mentoring because I have a full time job and I really enjoy what I'm doing with teaching online, or I really am getting into it.
 I'm starting to meet other people. I'm learning stuff  from other instructors. I'm really excited about it. So I wanna spend my time doing that. But  what I can do if you're interested is I've got a bunch of courses. Let me just    show you what I'm talking about here. I've got a bunch of courses that you can sign up for.
Some of this stuff is actually free. So what I do is  I put out a course and I give a portion.  a portion of it free, and some are just completely free. Some from scratch. If you're learning this from the beginning and you want to get into cyber security, then this is a free course for you to shows you what to actually focus on.
It's  six hours along, by the way. It's not, it didn't start off free   but  I felt like it's time to help more people out  that really need it to get into this market. I've got something on resume marketing, like how I have been able to have a job  since I got outta the military  I've got so many opportunities all the time because of this meth method that I use, some of which I teach for free on YouTube, by the way, some of the stuff I tell you guys  is in this course, but it's a breakdown.
Let me just show you how extensive this is, this  many hours of content and shows you, and you can use it as a reference. You don't have to go through line by line on all this stuff, but  shows you what I do to.  Have so much success in my career  and continuously have offers from all different kinds of organizations and different industries related to cybersecurity.
And then I've got  a walkthrough of the risk management framework process from the perspective of an information system, security officer. I've got a deeper dive into that, of how to actually do the documentation piece and downloadable templates that you can use. And I'm sharing essentially my experience in this field so that you're not lost and you know where to go and how to upgrade yourself and how to make more income.
 Let's keep it real.  This is about taking care of your family and taking care of your being, having some stability, financial stability. I'm talking about how I've been able to secure  my life and my family using this career field. So that's what I'm talking about in there. And tons of it's free.
So you should, at least you should sign up. Check out the free stuff. If you like it. Now, if you do sign up, I do answer any of your questions. You I'm gonna set up communities there. There's lots more to come in 20 21, 20 22, 20 23  plan to be in around for a long time  and offering as much help as possible for people.
My wife's calling me. Sorry, let me  just turn that off real quick.   Okay. So yeah.  So yeah, I do not do mentoring just yet. Maybe I have a full time job. I love my job. I love, I know that's a weird thing to say, but I'm really having fun, like learning different things. And my, when I'm at work, I'm like really at work  I don't have time to do anything else.
I'm  really doing stuff. And  I'm doing, I'm just learning so much.  I do have a discord channel if you have, if. Anytime you want to question have que, especially if you happen to be a member of the site, if you happen to be a paying member of the site, I'm gonna go outta my way to help you out  in, in very deep ways    stuff that I, we wouldn't be able to share on here, obviously      if it's more personal or if it's more  related to specific things at your job, then of course I'm not gonna make a video about that.
 So  that's the kind of stuff that I do offer, and those are things that I can do on the weekends, like when I'm off work and things like that,  and  there might be a time when I'm on lunch or something, or just after work or whatever, I'm on, I'm off that day and I can call and we can have  a  I've talked to my students before on the phone, like we're just back and forth talking about stuff that's tailored  to their  life.
But as far as mentoring on a regular basis, I would take it extremely seriously. And I just, I'm not ready. I don't have the time and the day to, to dedicate to that.  To that.  So yeah, so that's where we're at with that.  Let me see  thank you guys for watching. Appreciate everybody. I got another question that someone asked me.
They said, let me switch this screen here so you can see what I'm seeing. They said, hello, Bruce. I'm interested in becoming an information system, security officer and was interested in your course and what guidance you can provide on what courses on your site I should start with. I was using Darrell Gibson, but  I think he's a real popular security plus trainer, but I know  the 5 0 1 expires on July 21st, 2021.
What books should I get for the risk management framework for the cap? Okay. So first of all, I am. Developing a cap course.  But that's not gonna be out for a while now, if you wanna know what book that I would use right now for the cap course, I can share that with you. I'm gonna bring that up real quick.
The one that I think is a really good one, it's not cheap. And     it's so expensive. I wanna apologize for how expensive it is.  but there's no  real op  alternatives to this book  that I've seen.  There's  there's just not a lot on the cap  and that's why a lot of people follow me cuz there's, that's not a lot of people talking about risk management framework.
And this is one of the few books that  that are out there that I think  are worth your time.  I have this book and it's, and  I'm reading through it and  it's really good.    As far as taking the cap, it's really good. I don't believe it's super practical. But I think it's a good book for the actual test.
When I say practical, there's a difference between if you're an it guy  this there's a difference between actually taking the test. There's a difference between taking the test and doing the work. And they're just two separate things. So that book right there is really good for the official guide to the cap.
 Common body of knowledge is a good book for taking the test.  Cuz they're hitting all the objectives line by line, they're hitting objectives. So that's what you want in a good certification book.  Objectives, if you didn't know, typically. What certifications I used to teach certifications.  So  what certifications do is  they have different domains, right?
Each domain has a different category, a broad category, like for example, C I  S P has, I don't know, seven categories. I don't know if this should changed. I took it a long time ago, so I apologize for my ignorance.  in advance.    Yeah. And I'm a CI  S P but  the, it has say crypto  crypto cryptography  domain.
And it has another one  that's related to security compliance.  Let's just use those as examples. So the cryptography one is gonna have different objectives that it's gonna hit. Like it's gonna have different things that they expect you to know.  And those objectives will be different.
From  the security compliance domain, which will have its own objectives that go deeper into the details of the concepts behind that domain. And when you take the test, what they do is they stick to those objectives. So if you know the objectives very well, you should be able to pass the test. And if you don't pass the test, you should be able to take it the second time and pass it.
 So yeah, that's a good book. And  and what was your other question part of your question? That's the book that I would recommend  for the cap, and then you said, was interested in your course and guidance. Okay. So for the course, for my course, I would recommend if you're trying to get, become an ISSO, the book is not gonna be enough to become an ISSO.
And this is the reason why I did, I started doing this online stuff is because. Nobody's really teaching this.  It's just, I guess  if you pay 3000 to somebody come out to your job and actually show you that way. Yeah. But no, there's just not a lot of courses that tell you, give your practical guidance on this stuff.
If you are going into it for the first time, I would highly recommend risk management framework, information, security officer foundations, which tells you what you need to know.    For the course.   Not for cap, it's not focused on cap, but for the actual work for ISSO work. So if you want a free preview to see if this is worth your time, worth your money, then just go ahead and log in.
 And this first part is free. So there you go. And then  there's just. Lots and lots of stuff on each one of the categories of the risk management framework process. So yeah  it's good for somebody who's just starting out who wants to learn this for the first time and maybe  you're an it person, but you're trying to get into risk management, but you are like, man, this I'm reading through the nest 837.
It just doesn't make any sense. I'm speaking to you in plain English and translating by the time you're done with the course. When you read through 853, when you read through risk management framework, 37,  you're gonna understand what they're saying. They just use a certain language that is just very cumbersome.
  I, myself, after years of this have to reread, sometimes I gotta read it over and over again. Cuz the language is not, they're not using every day speak like we're talking right now.  It's just, they use all this different, these different words that you don't normally see. And so you're having to reread it.
yeah. Okay.  Answered those two questions and I got a few people talking to me. Let me see, let me read a few of those and somebody's messaging me. Let me just make sure that this is not something important real quick. Okay. All right. So it looks like I'm gonna have to end this session pretty soon.  I got a honey do list to attend to.
Okay. I'm gonna read through these as fast as I can. As fast as my dyslexic brain can allow me to process this information.  okay. Says  spade says  I'm maybe five months into my first industry position  as a  tier one. Oh yeah. Tier one security operation center analyst. I guess I'm not exactly entry level, but I'm looking to make more, some more money.
   Yeah, I would. So one of the things that I did looking for a junior security analyst role. Oh, okay. So one of the things that I did that immediately made me more valuable and is  there's certain certifications. Now, one of my courses actually talks about this, but I can mention a couple right now, the certain certifications that lend themselves to making more money, like just off the top of my head, a CIS S P certification.
 And then there's certain skills  certain skills.    Actually let me name a couple other certifications, any kind of professional level certification  is going to get you more money. CI  S P the CASP CI SM C I S a CCNP. Those are our professional level certifications, entry level security certifications would be like security plus  and there's a few other ones, but    okay, so those are certifications.
 And then for skills, if you're in a sock that would be seam,  if    Splunk, if    arch site's not as hot anymore, but Splunk is super hot.  If  some of the IDSS on IPSS  if you're deep in the firewalls  if you can configure them hot  if you're Palo, Alto's a hot one.
 But if you're  it's security analyst works. So you're looking at more stuff. That's looking at logs.  McAfee products NEIS  is a good one.  But the top ones right now is still on fire would be  Splunk. Yeah, Splunk. And then another hot one, like it's getting more hot, I would say, would be cyber security.
 Cyber security, threat intelligence stuff is getting pretty hot.  Cloud computing. If you know that one, like more and more organizations are using it. So they need people who know some of the vulnerabilities of cloud technology.  What kind of gotchas that organizations fall into is another good thing to know.
So those skill sets are immediately get you in another bracket of pay.  I have to warn you though. Once you get to another bracket of pay, you gotta deal with the IRS, but that's a whole nother conversation. Okay. JJ says  I got hit up for a cyber security risk management framework engineer, long term remote W2 contract position.
I have no experience with the risk management framework. I'm guessing I got hit up because of my cyber security experience, clearance tips, and tricks. Do I have any tips and tricks for this?  You okay. Do you said I have no risk management framework. Okay. So if you ha don't have any experience in it  yeah, that's gonna be, I  if you want the job  I would talk to 'em about  taking you on as a, as somebody who's learning it.
 Just be honest with them and say, no, I don't have experience with this, but I do have risk. I do have cybersecurity knowledge and I have read through  the risk management framework, 853, I've read through 837. I'm familiar with it. I've worked with  Compliance officers before I've worked with information system security officers before I've worked with security assessors before whichever one of those is true for you.
If none of 'em are true, of course don't say that, but , if you, so the thing is  if you have experienced from cyber security, you have an advantage in that    the basic concept  of security, which is to protect the CIA  protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability. You can just tell them you have a very strong foundation, explain to them that you have a very found strong foundation in your respective cyber security role, and then build from there.
So if you have a solid skill set in cyber security, even if you're a system administrator, just what you need to do is dig into your archives of all the times you've done. Implementation of security features on a system. I guarantee you have a solid set of skills, right? So with those skills, you wanna tell them, Hey, I know how to secure systems.
I know what to look for. And by the way, I know the risk management framework process. I've not done it before, but I know it now, if you don't know it, go learn it.  I have a course that you can go through, check that out that you can add, to be honest with you, you can probably just Google it and read through the risk management framework, 837.
I would highly recommend my course because I'm telling you exactly what you're gonna see and what they're gonna say to you and what they're expecting.    And I'd be willing to help you out. So just keep those kind of things in mind, tips and tricks. Number one. Build on what you already know as a cyber security person  confidentiality, integrity, availability, you've secured systems of before, more than likely you've worked with assessors and auditors before, more than likely you've worked with compliance people before you've done documentation before you wanna highlight all of those skills that you already have, and then tell 'em Hey, another  tip is to learn the risk management framework process.
Learn it by my course. Go ahead and learn, read through it.  Watch all the videos. You'll get a solid understanding of what the foundations of risk management framework are. Okay. I'm gonna move on to the next thing.  I'm paid member at the first as a first timer. How do I get a job? Because most of the jobs are looking for five years of experience.
So one of the things that I would highly recommend Cobi is to. Look for entry level positions. Okay.  Entry level positions, you gotta start somewhere and that start is entry level. Okay. So let me just show you what I mean by that. It's very simple. If you go, if you could follow along with me, if you want go tod.com, this is just one site, by the way, I use this one all the time, cuz  it's just so vanilla.
It's so vanilla and so easy to understand and so straightforward that it's feel like it's a really good teaching tool. Okay. So first off here I am in indeed, indeed.com. You're gonna follow along with me. Okay. Put your location wherever you're from wherever you're from. Put that in there. Next thing put  there's a couple things you can do here.
You can put ISSO there's a ton of key words you can use for this job. ISSO  entry level,
none  in this area.  Okay. Let me search somewhere all over the United States. Wow. It's just really going to town here. All right. So look at this information system, security officer work, most of the jobs, if you happen to be on the east coast, you should know that  you guys have all the jobs  you guys have  70% of all the risk management framework jobs.
I'm not even messing around with you, but  yeah. So you notice how all of these are Virginia. You can find a job, especially if you have a clearance. There's a couple of things that you have. You may have an advantage. If you happen to live on the east coast, you have an advantage. If you happen to have a security clearance, watch this.
If I put security  clearance, if you have a security clearance, you have an advantage. Cause sometimes they're looking for a person with a security clearance and they're they just get desperate, cuz there's just not that many people who have it. So they'll actually  pull you in and teach you if you have this.
Now, if you don't have a security clearance, another thing is you got, you could be eligible. For a security clearance.    Eligible means  you are a  a us citizen BLE. I cannot spell what the damn eligible.  my first and only language and I can't spell  eligible. Yeah. Now all I did was type in eligible and  and they, it immediately knows I'm looking for eligible active.
Oh wait, no, I'm looking for eligible.  Security eligible for security clearance is what I'm looking for, but it's coming up with active duty  okay. But a bunch of, so stuff came up eligible security clearance is what I'm looking for. Eligible security officer. Now these are physical security roles.
Okay. Here we go.  Principle means like you're a boss, so you don't want that.  information security specialists in an airport. That's physical security. Okay. This is mixing a bunch of stuff up here. Eligible security clearance.
Yeah, here we go. So  if you're eligible for security clearance, if this is another  another thing that's gonna make it so that you have a better chance of getting a job, the best thing you can have, of course, I'm not even gonna, I'm not gonna BSU  is experience. There's no replacement for it, but how do you get experience if you don't have it?
So you gotta go to entry level positions. Now, if you have zero.  if you have no it experience that is different. If you have some, listen, let me just be very Frank with you. If you have some it experience, meaning you are a system administrator, you worked on databases, you worked on cryptography, you worked on, you have some it experience.
You worked on workstations, whatever  you have a very good chance of getting in, into risk management framework. Okay. You have a very good chance. If you have zero, it experience, meaning you've never held a role at a company or a university or a private    or a government or anywhere that is different.
That is different. And the reason why is because risk management framework and security is typically not entry level. It's not like literally walking the door and start flipping burgers. Okay. That's not that this is not that kind of a job.  there's too much stuff at stake. There's too much trust that's involved.
 There's just, you're gonna be trusted with other people's information and assets. You're gonna be entrusted to know the secrets of that organization    where the vulnerabilities are. You're gonna know where they are. They have to trust you. So for that, they need a professional who has something to lose.
All right. That's why cyber security is typically not an entry level position.  I'm sure somebody out there right now is watching this saying, Bruce, what are you talking about? I'm an entry level.  I'm walking off the street and I'm a cyber security person. Okay. That's fine. But I'm just telling you typically, it's not something you walk off the street and you can do this.
That's don't lose hope. Okay. If you don't have it experience, if you don't, if you've never done any of this stuff before, there's a couple things you can do. People contact me all the time and what  the last time I did a couple weeks ago, somebody an educator contacted me and she said, Hey, Bruce  I really wanna get into it.
I want to be getting a risk management framework. I like what you're saying. It sounds cool to me. I wanna do it. She's an educator. She had a master's degree in education. She has very little or no it skills. And I said, Hey, you might wanna consider becoming a program manager, okay. Program managers work with it.
They, and in some cases they have to know our, they gotta know what we're talking about. They have to know some of our jargon. They don't have to know how to configure a server. They don't have, they don't have to know how to stand up a Linux box. They don't have to know how to reduce threats on a.  on a weapon system,  they don't have to do all that, but what they do have to do  is they have to have a certain level of maturity to manage a project and they have to have a certain level of  technical know how with things like office   so those are some of the things that you would, what I would suggest if you were trying to get in a high paying, very high, skilled, high paying job in it.
One of the things you can do is get a parallel job, which is a project manager position. It pays six figures by the way. Okay.  It's not a joke. It's no joke. Program management is no joke.    You can actually, even without an it experience, you can get in there and you can make upwards of six figures.
Look it up. Look it up.  It's a damn good job.  So yeah, number one, if you don't have any it experience at all, you gotta get it experience. You got, you have to, whether you're volunteering at your church, volunteering at your job. If let's say  you're a system administrator  you're a non system administrator.
You're HR, you're in the HR department, right? You work with people's w two S and stuff. You wanna get an it, but you don't know what to do. You don't wanna do a program management work. You don't wanna do that. You wanna do it. Okay.  Then you gotta start from the bottom. Imagine somebody walking in your job in your profession, off the streets, not knowing anything and wanting the keys to the castle.
Okay. With cyber security. That's what we're talking about.    You gotta, you, if you have no experience, you gotta get it. That means you gotta become, go to  help desk entry level position is what I would suggest if you have zero it experience, but you wanna get technical. Yes. Go into, try to entry level positions, volunteer, do it for free.
Cause that work that you're gonna put in for free fixing somebody's laptops at some corporation is not indentured servitude. It's. That you're building up experience. It's experience. You're slowly building up and putting on your resume, building up experience, putting it on your resume. Then that'll allow you to level up to another job, a higher level it job.
You do that by the way, while you're working on your security. Plus, while you're working on your a plus certification, a entry level position with an entry level certification, then once you have those things, now we're talking about months and years worth of work. This is hard work. This is not something you walk off the street and then suddenly you do it.
People are gonna entrust think, imagine your bank. Okay. LIS if you don't think it's fair, just imagine your bank, whatever, wherever you bank in the back, they have a security person who D who a cybersecurity person who has no experience, but they know where all the SU they know where all the vulnerabilities of the bank are.
They know.   Where the threats, they don't even know what threats are. They don't know what threats are, but they know there's vulnerabilities. They ran the scan. Do you want that person at your bank as a cyber security person who doesn't know what they're doing, who has no experience with it? No, you don't.
So I, when you're talking about cyber security, you're talking about somebody who's entrusted with the keys to the castle. They have to have something at stake. And that means you have to put in the work as an it for me to you. If you're an it professional, if you are trying to get cyber security, like we ha we are entrusted with something, with a lot of information  so you have to have something, you have to have some skin in the game.
That means time. That means you, you invested your own time and money to get to the skill set and the skill level that you're at. And you're not willing to risk it by making a mistake or doing something stupid. And I everybody makes mistakes, but. As you get to learn how to troubleshoot as you get to learn how these systems work, how to do backups  you begin to learn how to manage your own risk for your own profession.
You manage the risk to yourself and ran, manage the risk to your organization and the risk to the organization's information.  I hope that makes sense to everybody out there listening.  Let me see.  And I'm gonna, I gotta do a couple guys.  I gotta get going here.  I apologize for cutting this one short, but  let me see.
Can you get a ISSO job with a green card as a green card holder?   That is a good question.  Yes, you, you can, however  There.  Not, maybe not an it's gonna be harder to get an so job. Okay. But let me show you, let me show you my screen here. Let me show you how you can get a compliance job, a security compliance job with a green card.
So there are security, cybersecurity jobs  that have a  public trust clearance. It's a type of clearance, public trust clearance. It's a type of clearance that doesn't require you to be a us citizen. If I'm not mistaken.  Yeah, let me see, let me try this one here. And usually they'll say, Hey, you must be a us citizen.
They'll tell you right on there.  This one might not be, and it's not giving me that information. So this is a public trust. I think.  but it's not okay. How about this? Let's do this. Let's just be straightforward here. Let's just say, watch this cyber security    green card. They usually put GC as a green card, by the way.
Let's see cloud strike.  Let's look at this one. It will say in here. Yep. There you go. Right there. See this that's the keyword right there. See it says green card for clearance, us citizen or  green card for clearance. There you go. That's what you wanna look for when you're looking for positions now, do they do this for ISLs?
Let's see, let's just type in ISL. I don't, I've not seen a lot of green card holders be ISLs, but I could be wrong. Senior    chemist, see that see  is so  usually in ISSOs working for a high level government agency and they require that you be a us citizen. So that's why you, I just don't I off the top of my head, I don't know if any ISSOs, but I know that there's actually, I take that back.
So there's some corporations  there's some corporations who do ISSO work and they will hire a green card holder. But what I would do if I were you, is I would just
senior associate cyber risk.
See I'm currently working in an organization that  we have people from all over the world working with us. So I know for sure you can do cyber security, cyber risk in the us    without being a us citizen.  I know several people who that work on our team who are in that exact position, but are they ISSOs  we're not doing  those kinds of, we're not doing D O D type stuff.
So let me see here. I'm looking for, did I just pass it? Yeah, it's in here must be a us citizen or green car holder.  And most of these are gonna be, must be a us citizen, an our green car holder jobs. Yeah.   We couldn't find an ISSO position. That's green card, but you can find. All right, guys.  I have to go.
I gotta get going here.  Thank you so much for watching me. If you have any other questions, if you look in the description below, there'll be a place where you can actually join me all times of the day on holidays and weekends and stuff  on discord, you have any kind of questions. I'll answer. 'em when I can also  you can always email me.
   It's, cyberware 2020 gmail.com and  we can talk about  any kind, and I'll actually make a video sometimes about people ask me really great questions that I think could help many people. And you'd be surprised sometimes people ask me a question, but several other people ask me that exact same question.
So I know it's something that is relevant and I know it's something that needs to be addressed. So then I'll just go ahead and make a whole video about it. All right, guys. Thank you for all your questions. Thanks a lot.  Copy. If I didn't answer your question, please answer, ask me on discord in the linked description below    spades.
Thank you so much for that. I hope that's how you pronounce your name.  Marcus, thank you for your comments. I did not get to your comments, but    let, what I'll do is I will copy this and use this for another time. Another video. Thank you guys so much for watching. Join me on discord. If you have any, if you have a pressing question and we will talk.

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Hey guys, this is Bruce and welcome to combo course podcast. And today we're gonna be talking about a few things. One of the things I wanna talk to you guys about is process versus prize or system over goals. And this really applies to everything in life, but we're gonna specifically talk about cyber security.
Another thing I'm gonna show you as a new book I'm working on. It's not, it's gonna be out. I don't know, probably within the next month and a half, I gotta get it edited and all that kind of stuff. I'm actually still writing it, but it's gonna come out soon. So that's. Something we're talk about, then I'm gonna open it up to any kind of questions you have about getting into this space in cyber security.
And in the it, I got a lot of people contacting me about how to get in this field. That's growing really fast or how to upgrade themselves and all that kind of stuff. I've been doing this for over 20 years. I'm a subject matter expert specifically in cyber security compliance. That's, what I've been doing for most of this time that I've been in this space.
And so if you have any questions about that, how to get in it, how to, what to do like specific questions even I can answer 'em on this live. All right. Let's get into this. First of all, I want to tell you guys that I have a site called combo courses.com where I sell lots of stuff. A bunch of courses, also books, and a ton of stuff for free.
If you are interested.  So if you're interested in that, go check out convo courses.com. Like, I said, lots of free stuff. It's free to sign up lots of training downloadables if you happen to be in this space I'm constantly giving out free stuff. I'm trying to build a community. And that's why, if you have question, why I'm giving out anything for free, that's the reason why cuz I'm building a community I'm, thinking bigger.
I'm thinking about making a community that helps itself and Built one of these before in a whole different genre. And it, works really well. So that's what I'm doing. If you're interested in joining that community, join me on, YouTube. Join me on discord. Join me on TikTok. Join me everywhere.
Combo courses, just type to combo courses. You'll find us out there where have a growing community of people that's coming together to learn this to, level up together to, get more to, make that money really. That's what it comes down to for take take, care of our families and take care of ourselves.
Okay. So what I'm gonna talk to you today about the first topic of discussion will be about will be about process versus the prize. A lot of people contact me about trying to get to certifications or degrees and which ones should they get and all that kind of stuff.  and it's really the wrong question and I don't fault anybody for it.
Because I was, I had the same kind of questions when I first started. You should be focused more on the process and this, really goes on everything in life. Your focus should be not on the prize, not on how many likes you get, not on how many people are watching you, not on how many people or how many degrees you're gonna get or, courses or any one thing.
It should be on the process itself. And we're gonna specifically talk about cyber security, cuz that's my profession, but this really applies to anything in life. Let me specify what I mean by using this an example. Lately people have been asking me about the a plus comp Tia certification and how do you get it?
Where, do you get it from? How do you know all this kind of, what kind of job can you get if you actually do that, all that kind of all those kinds of questions and is there's nothing wrong going for that certification or any other certifications. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. And I would encourage you to get it if this is your first time getting in, into cyber security, into it in general it's a good thing to get.
But what I wanna say is that the most important thing that you should focus on is the process of learning this the common body of knowledge that goes into it. And the reason why I say that is because if you focus on the common body of knowledge, if you focus on actually learning what you have to do in to get that certification, to get that it certification.
If you focus on that,  you'll have all the knowledge that you need to go ahead and take the Google support it certification. You'll have the knowledge that you need to actually go ahead and take the in network plus certification. You'll, have all the knowledge you need to actually spend your, whole your, whole resume.
If you actually learn the stuff that's in the comp tier a plus certification, right? It's just one thing. If you focus if you focus on just that thing, just that one prize, you'll get that prize, and there's nothing wrong with that, but I'm telling you to focus on the whole orchard. I'm telling you to focus on the seeds.
That's gonna get you like not just one certification, not just a little bit of experience, but expand your whole horizon and get you way more knowledge, way more certification, way more experiences and, actually get more from the fruits of your labor. To do that. You gotta focus on the actual labor, not the prize.
The prize is cool. I'm not telling you like not to get it. I'm saying expand like what you are, what you're doing by focusing on the work, focusing on the process itself, of learning the process of learning all the curriculum that's in CompTIA. And let me give you a specific example of what I'm talking about.
Let's go to CompTIA. Let's we're gonna use CompTIA a plus certification as an example of what I'm talking about. This is my, this was my first certification and this is why I promoted so much because after I learned that certification, I knew enough about computers to where I could get in this field.
And I was working helped desk for a while and I learned enough about troubleshooting and all that kind of stuff to where it, was able to expand my entire career. Eventually get me to working, making six figures and being able to take all these vacations and all kinds of stuff. But here's the curriculum right here.
And if you're listening to me right now, it's, I'll read it. There's nine skills that you have to master to validate your CompTIA, a plus certification, hardware, operating systems, software troubleshooting, network troubleshooting mobile devices, virtualization, cloud operational procedures, these, all of these things.
And these section, if you actually buy the book, these are the sections, some of the sections that'll mainly be broken into. And of course, it'll go more detail in each one of these areas. If you actually learn this stuff and not just go ahead and take the test and pass, cuz that's, actually the easy part taking the test and passing it you can actually go.
and take a bunch of just retake the test over and over again. And eventually you'll pass the test. I'm telling you to study the common body of knowledge and know and understand what's actually happening. Do go beyond just taking the test, go beyond just taking the questions and passing the test, go into actually setting up a lab in your house, figuring out how to put all that stuff together, figuring out your own network, figuring out how firewalls, whole space firewalls work, how's that different from network, firewalls, learning, all that stuff by maybe even actually doing it in your own home.
Maybe actually helping your community out. If there's an opportunity for you to do that, actually getting hands on to where you literally understand it, building your own computer, things like that, to where you understand it. So fully that the comp Tia a plus certification, when you get it is not a big.
It's your first certification. So obviously you're gonna be patting yourself on the back, but what I'm saying is if you expand your base and you understand this stuff, like you really deeply understand it, you can go then and go take other certifications, entry level certifications, easily like a plus certifications, the natural next step in your evolution.
And then the next thing you could probably take is a com is a Google support it certification, which will probably be easy for you, cuz you have gone so deep in the rabbit hole for a plus certification. I'm telling you to learn the common body of knowledge and learn the process, put the, put that work in and that will give you all your other, everything else.
You'll get all kinds of other prizes, not just the certification, right? And you might even inspire you to go get a degree. If you choose to go that path, you don't have to, but you could the process over the prize. This is book I read. A really good book. I encourage you to go out and get it. It's called atomic habits and it's really, it's a really good book.
And he, one of the things he said in the book was don't focus on the goal, focus on the system, creating a system to get that goal. And that's what I'm talking about. So if you focus on the process, that'll get you to that certification. You can get a whole bunch of other certifications and experience. If you actually understand how to build computers, how to build a network, if you actually have a hands on that you can do in your house nowadays.
So that's what I'm trying to encourage you to do super important. The next question should be how do I, get developed a discipline to focus on the work rather than just the prize? Because it's easy to work, focus on the prize. Like you're thinking about, okay, if I make this $65,000 a year after I get the certification, or if I can, if I, maybe I focus on getting I'll be able to get six figures.
If I get this professional level certification, and now I'm not telling you not to get six figures, I'm not telling you not to get a professional level cert. I'm not telling you not to get agreed. None of that. I'm not telling you that's the fruits of your labor. What I'm trying to tell you is if you focus on the actual process, if you work, if you focus on the discipline in that process, you can have any damn thing you want.
And what happens, what I've noticed is what happens is like when you focus on that discipline in this career path, all the people who I know who, are at this super high echelon is super high level. All these guys are highly accomplished because that's exactly what they did. They're more focused on like actually knowing and understanding how to do this stuff.
and because of that, all these other certifications are within their grasp. They have all these other opportunities and all of these other success factors that come in because they actually know the material. So well, that's where I want you to focus on. If you focus on the discipline of doing the process, then everything else you'll not only have the certification, you'll have several other opportunities to take other certifications, cuz you'll understand it so effectively.
And then after a while you notice a plus certifications is not that big of a deal at all. You'll notice that the does any certification is not that big of a deal. One of the things that I've learned on this path of just having the discipline to to, really go deep in this and become a professional level, subject matter expert in this field is that.
whenever I go to a new organization, they're always pat me on the back. I get all these certifications. I get all these awards I should say. And and I'm not telling you that to like brag or anything like that, cuz it's not bragging rights for me. It's bragging rights is that I was able to take care of my family.
It's bragging rights is I was able to take my family to Hawaii. That was dope. I do this for my family. I do this for to do better than just survive. And for me that's the greatest reward that I could ever receive because of that. I don't care that some giant company gave me an award, gave me extra a little bit extra cash because I, accomplished something within their organization.
When you I'm focused on the process of allowing us to have a roof over our head and to eat good. That's what I'm focused on. The process that it takes to do that means me studying sometimes late at night means me waking up a little bit earlier. Sometimes means me putting in the work that I need to do beyond motivation.
Cuz sometimes I'm not motivated. Sometimes I'm sick to my stomach and I don't feel like doing nothing. And I don't feel like getting out of bed. I, all I wanna do is watch YouTube all day and watch stupid videos. That's why , but what do, but I know that the discipline has to take precedence over bad habits, so once you get that in your head, once you start to develop this muscle of just having the discipline to get outta bed and go stay up late or do other things you need to do to make these things work. It, changes everything in your whole life. And I'm not just talking about cyber security.
I'm talking about everything in your life. . If you focus on the process and the discipline that it takes to do that process, you can do anything you want to do in this life, but it takes motor. It takes discipline beyond motivation. Motivation's not enough. You gotta have the discipline to do it. And that, and cyber security is no different.
So that's all I want to say about that. It's just something that I noticed about my own life. Anything that I've done in my life that was successful, but it came because I had the discipline to put, I put in the discipline to do it. If you go out and the discipline takes you to another level because, if I fail a certification, you only fell.
If you quit, I'll just keep taking it until I pass it. That's what I'll do. I won't. I do. I will not quit. I'll just keep taking it until I pass it. Once you get that discipline in you, nothing is gonna stop you. You're just gonna keep doing it. Okay. Anyway, let me tell you guys about Couple things here.
So if you didn't know, my name is Bruce. I run a site called combo courses. I'm building a community of like-minded cyber security, people who wanna teach each other, learn from one another. I call it combo courses, cuz it's a conversation between me and the community between us, the, between the community and itself.
I'm, building a community. I've got 10,000 followers on YouTube. I've got a few followers on on Facebook. I've got a few followers on my Facebook group on, discord, on and starting to build a community on TikTok where we're just helping each other out, learning from one another and building up and that's the, ultimate goal to this whole.
If you're interested in learning more, you wanna follow me go to YouTube and then go to combo course type in combo courses. You'll find me there where I talk about all things related to cyber security. Talk about how to get into this field. I talk about how to do risk management framework, which is my specialty and, security compliance.
That's what I mainly focus on. If you're interested in getting more out of this, I've got a book out there. That's related to my actual specialty, which is risk management framework, where I talk about the security controls that go into N 800 risk management framework. I've got one that's foundational and I've got one that like foundational, meaning you don't have to know anything.
You just listen to the book. I got it on audio by the way. Or, you can read the book and and, learn a little bit more about that.  And it's so popular that people are literally copying my book like this dude copied my book and is selling it. He copied my book and selling it as his own anyway.
So it must be good if that's the case. I've got two books out there. I'm building more than just a book. I'm building a entire community. I'm building a a, an entire something where you can talk to me directly. You could talk to me directly and ask me specific questions about how to do this. And I think that's why a lot of people have been following, because I answer questions that they ask me.
So if you have any questions whatsoever, feel free to con to call up to email me, or you could actually ask me a question right now. If it's related to cyber security, I'll do my best to help you out. And, that goes for everybody in this community. I really appreciate all the people who've been following me.
I appreciate all the questions. I appreciate all the accolades, all the. Great comments that I've gotten on my book. It's, really been a great, a very rewarding thing to see people actually commenting and, leaving positive comments on my books and stuff. So that's really good. If you didn't know, go to amazon.com type in risk management framework or Bruce Brown.
You'll see my book there. And I also have a site called combo courses. I have a podcast I'm doing at least once a week. I've got I'm on YouTube doing combo courses. So follow me if you're interested in this kind of content, if you're interested in getting the it or a risk management framework then, follow me.
All right. And I'm gonna show you guys a glimpse of the book then I'm writing right now is how to improve your resume and, be able to get people to contact you. Cuz that's what I've been doing in the last few years. Reason why I've been able to get all these jobs quickly. Okay. Deru has a question on YouTube.
He says, Hey Bruce, what resources would you recommend for keeping in tune with the latest. And updates in cyber security. And I would say de truth. That's a good question. By the way, I would say that really depends on what categori category, sorry that you have in cyber security because there's many different cat cyber security is a huge category.
It's huge. Like it's a huge field. It's a huge umbrella. You've got everything from risk management framework to you've got cyber threat intelligence which, does threat hunting. You've got you've got Intel, which is considered a part of cyber security cyber Intel. You've got forensics, you've got all kinds of different branches of cyber security.
So it really depends on the branch. Now, if you want an overall of all cyber security, I could tell you, I could tell you some of my resources. And then what I'll do is I'll break it down into different genres of, cyber security, the ones that I know. All right. So first the first really good resource would probably be the CIS A's website.
CISA is a government site not, the actual certifications from Isak. I'm talking about csa.gov. And so CS a is cyber security infrastructure and security agency. This is one of the most one of the best resources. Let me just switch my camera here for TikTok, for those who wanna watch. So this is SI this isa.gov csa.gov.
And these guys are one of the best resources for things that are going on mostly to the whole United States, like federal government, state governments. If there's a huge hack, you'll see 'em here. Pop up here. You'll also see different vulnerabilities that come out like the big ones, different malware.
Like right now here they have 20, 21 top malware strains. And then they've got a blog here with the newsroom. Let's just go to, let's go to this one. This is dated August 31st, and this is SAFECOM publishes 2022 SAFECOM strategic plan. This is all like federal type stuff. So if you are in the federal space, this is one of your best resources.
Let me see what other resources are there? Other places you can go if you happen to be in vulnerability management are the people who like manage they manage let me see if I could switch. Oh, you switch it like that. Huh? Oh, that's cool. So messing around with TikTok , that's what I'm doing in the background.
So vulnerability management, that's people who take care of their organization's vulner patches, right? PA there's patches that are always coming in. And they have to update 'em. So one of the best resources for that is probably CVEs is a huge database of all the vulnerabilities that are popping up throughout the industry.
That's through a vendor it's all vendors. So it's not any one specific vendor that being said, vendor. If, you have say Microsoft patches, then the best resource is Microsoft for, their most recent vulnerabilities in how to fix 'em. And then if it, if you have a Cisco device, it's Cisco.
That's the best place for the most current things going on with Cisco. And if you have an apple product, same thing, like if you have a Macintosh, you go to the vendor, but this CVE site is really good because it has a huge database. That's constantly being updated to inform you of what is going on for vulnerabilities.
Let me see if I can find a really good breakdown of this. Let me see, where do you normally I find the individual CVEs from the, from Google. Let me see CVE resources. Okay. Just trying to find like a specific CBE that I could show you here. So yeah, CBEs are good for for, actual vulnerabilities and then there's Like I said different branches of cyber security.
So each branch has its own like group of resources. Government has C I S a everybody in a lot, everybody in the government goes to C S a site. And they have the most recent APTs advanced, persistent threats, most recent vulnerabilities, all that kind of stuff. What's what the government's doing.
Like what, where we should be focusing our energy. What it's, really good resource. And CVEs, this is like a huge database of, all the places you want to go for vulnerabilities. And I'm look, I'm still looking for the actual database  of the actual vulnerabilities. Let me just, okay. See CVE I'm on Google right now, typing in CVE.
Let me see a specific one would be iOS CBE for I iOS. They have a vulnerability data database that has every single vulnerability you could think of. So this one's for iOS 15.6 and at this is going straight to apple site for 15.6, a recent kernel update and web kit update that they have. And it's for CVE 2022 3, 2 8, 9 3.
You might be familiar with this one, but I'm gonna type that one into Google. And it goes straight to the CVE site that I was just on. And then it'll have a breakdown of, how it affects other things. So this is one of the best resources that I, was, we were using a lot in almost every place I've gone to.
We use the same thing, private sector and. Public sector uses this one. Now, if you're in the department of defense, let me show you like department. See, it really depends on where you're at, but department of defenses, best resources is called dissa. D I S a DISA do mail. Okay. So D the DISA mill website has some of the best resources as far as how to fix your system.
They have the STIGs the, security test security, technical implementation guides, one of the best resources on the internet even, the private sector uses it. That's how good it is, but this is a really good resource for department of defense and actual federal government. And it's so good.
Recently it's gotten so good that even, the private sector start using the STIGs. So yeah here, it is right here. Here's the news that they're always releasing different stuff. That's related to department of defense, mostly. But. Their STIGs are incredible. Their training is ridiculous. It's one of the best resources.
It really depends on what branch and what area of cyber security that you're going in. But so I, hope that answers your question de truth. Specifically, what area, if you tell me, what area of cyber security you're in, we could find like a really good resource for it. Okay. I've got a question or comment on, TikTok.
They say, Hey, hi, Bruce. How difficult is it to travel with a security clearance with, or without a job? This is a great question. Okay. The question is how difficult is it to travel with or without a security clearance? It's not difficult at all to travel with a security clearance. It just takes a little bit of research on your part.
It depends on the, on your clearance. So Deru thank you so much for that 19 bucks. I appreciate you. So let me, this is a really good, this is a great question. I'm glad, so glad you asked me this question. So let's answer this now. I'm speaking from a person who's had a public trust, which I have right now.
I've had a sec, a secret clearance, and I've had a Ts S E I clearance. And I've known people who have a higher clearance than me. And I could tell you there's there is a difference. Alright, how difficult is it to travel? It's not difficult. You can travel anywhere you want. However
I'll start from the highest and go to the lowest. Okay. So a friend of mine and I won't name names, I won't tell how, what kind of clearance he had. I'll just say it was a hi, his clearance was higher than sci this. If you wanna Google what that is, then just research it for yourself. Just go to Google and type in high clearances.
High top secret clearances. He had one of those. He had something above that, and this dude could barely talk about what he did. He was very guarded. He said that they tapped his phone. Like they knew where he was at all times. It's it is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. It's preposterous. I said I would never work for an agency that does that.
They openly told him, Hey, by the way, we are tracking you we know where you're going. Here's and then they told him there's places you cannot go. It's, there's places you couldn't. And then when he named the places, I thought he was gonna say oh, I can't go to obvious places. Like I can't go anywhere near Iran.
I can't go to there's certain places in some, countries in Africa, you can't go there's certain places in. But then he said he couldn't go to certain parts of the Philippines. I was like, what? There's certain parts of the Philippines. He couldn't go because there was terrorist activity there.
And I was shocked. I'm like, I never heard of nothing like that. I didn't for a second. I didn't even believe him. Then he started breaking it all down. Cuz there's like some kind of terrorist threat and some part of mening now I'm like, are you for real? And then there was, they even questioned people.
He talked to whenever he would go overseas. So they weren't. And then a lot of times they weren't saying you can't go, but if you go overseas, you gotta tell us where you're going. You gotta tell us who you're talking to. That's the kind of clearance he had. All right. I don't like, I don't know much about that.
I can just, all this is hearsay and bullshit. Okay. So do your own research on that one. I'm just telling you what this dude told me. Let me tell you about something. I know about the clearance. Like I had to tell top secret S sci I had a secret clearance and I had a, public sector. I'm gonna tell you about those three.
All right. So in my experience, number one, there's no, they're not restricting me to. To most countries, the countries that I'm restricted to go to are obvious, and most, Americans should not go to these places. North Korea. Don't go to North Korea. Just don't. If you wanna know why just Google it, just do your own research.
Don't go. It's just stupid. It's just dumb. Don't don't do it.  just don't especially if you used to be in the military, just don't do it. I don't, I just, anyway, I'm saying that because people have done it, you probably might be thinking like, why would nobody goes to North Korea?
People don't do it. Iran. Don't just, don't go. The us. And unfortunately it's unfortunate that our countries cuz it's a, it's an amazing place with amazing.  amazing human history is happening there. And it's a shame that our governments can't work things out to where human beings can't go to certain parts of the world.
To me, it's just dumb, but if you have a clearance yeah, they monitor that there's certain countries you really will lose your clearance over. There's certain places in there's certain countries in Africa that you can't go certain countries in Africa. Can't go, cuz there's too many. There's a list.
Normally when you go to an organization, they'll have a list of places that you, they recommend you do not go. And so when you're, when you have your clearance, you're at this organization, one of the first things you should do is figure out what those countries are and what the policy is for your organization that you're working for.
What policy do they have that says, okay, you cannot go to these places. And here's why, and the reason why that you can't is because of this thing called I a R. And so I a R is. Oh Lord. What is the acronym? I a it's like international. If you guys know what it is, please let me know. I can't remember off the top of my head.
I a R is international trade arms. It's okay. Here it is right here. International traffic, and arms regulations. It, doesn't like this, the name of it doesn't fit. What it does. That's why it's confusing because it's not just arms that they're tracking. It's like all kinds of techn technical goods and, certain technologies.
And I of understand why they do it because if you look at a country like China, China steals a lot of in an LA. This is not, cap. This is not conspiracy. This is real China. And other countries will steal certain technologies from us companies. They do this on a regular basis. It's a pretty smart move.
I think they steal your, their, I. They've done it to Google. They did it to Google's search algorithm. They did it to Cisco. They did it to they stole the, that what's that jet. Oh my gosh. The joint strike fighter, they stole all the, they've done it to multiple successful organizations.
And not just in the, to the United States. China's just one example. All countries do this, all countries do this to one another, they still intellectual property. And then they either implement it or do something in their own country so that they can get a leg up. But a lot of people do this to the United States cuz of the United States, regardless of weight, how you might.
About the United States. It has some of the greatest innovations on planet earth. And it's because we're living in some sort of golden age where all this stuff is coming out. Like eventually this is gonna die out. Eventually all the ideas are gonna shift to another part of the world, probably China or something.
But right now us is in this place where all these inventions are happening. Mostly from even TikTok, TikTok used to be vine. You know what I mean? Like this idea of TikTok was taken from vine. They looked at vine and said, wow, that's successful. And then they reengineered it, made it better. And, then absorbed musically.
And then now you have TikTok, vine started in the us and I don't know, like what's going on in the us. Why there's so much innovation, why there's so many, I think it's because the, in my mind I I know it sounds.  stupid conspiracy theory, but, or some kind of stupid faith patriotism, but it's because we're, there's freedom here.
There's freedom to think what you want and do what you and make mistakes. And that's why there's so many innovations here, I think. But if and if you, travel the world, like what's weird, what's crazy. When you travel, speaking of traveling, you see how much influence the us has on other countries.
You see how just going like Philippines. I was in the Philippines like last two weeks ago, three weeks ago. And everybody's wearing Fu boo shirts. Fu boo is a us brand from diamond. What's his face? Not yeah. Diamond that billionaire the, billionaire on on shark tank, that dude came up with that brand and that thing's all over the Philippines.
One of the most popular brands in the Philippines, you're walking through the mall and. I'm just saying like the influence that the us has is crazy. So one of the things that they, that country like different companies will have you do is Don not do not take our intellectual property to these countries.
They'll have a list. Don't go to those places. If you value your career, look at what their policy is and adhere to it, if they're saying, do not go to these countries, don't do it. So that's what I'll say about that. It doesn't. So to answer, go back to the question. went off on the tangent, the que original question from, to was how difficult is it to travel with the security clearance with, or without a job?
How difficult is it? It's not difficult. You can go wherever the hell you want. The problem is there's certain countries. If you go to go there, if you have a high enough clearance, you can lose your clearance. And they'll have a bunch of questions at the very least. They'll have a bunch of questions when you get back and they'll know where you went.
What you can do is before you go, is you tell them I'm going here and then they'll have a list of things that, that they will, that they'll say for you to do or not to do. Is it difficult? No. Can you go, yes. Can you jeopardize your job? Depends. If you, violated that, that organization's policies and yes, that you can lose not only your clearance, but your job as well.
So just keep that in mind. Somebody on TikTok said, Hey, yeah, they they're incredible at reverse engineering facts, Then in the Chinese, like in my mind, Chinese are the smartest human beings on earth. The Chi the Chinese are ha they're you say what you want, but man, they're in a they're I don't know, like it's so smart to steal.
Like this is the smartest thing. You can do steal a billion dollars worth of research, take it to your country. And then boom, you have by. You have WeChat, you have TikTok. How smart is that? That's brilliant. I am a lamp seeker says you might end up with a polygraph. Oh yeah. A polygraph test.
So one of the things that will happen is that you come back from your trip overseas and then they'll give you, you a polygraph test where they'll ask you a bunch of questions. Have you talked to any foreigners? Did, any foreign person come up to you and, ask you questions? This is just what I've heard from the, my, a friend of mine who has a high enough clearance to where they ask those kinds of que that's of what happens if you have a high enough clearance.
So do your own research. If you happen to be at an organization that has clearances and stuff, and you're dealing with sensitive information, look into their policies, look into I a R, which is international traffic in arms regulation.  It's, not as bad as you think norm normally it's gonna be obvious places that you shouldn't go anyway, as an American citizen, it's just, you're jeopardizing yourself.
know, I'm just being real with you. Don't, there's certain places you shouldn't go. If you want to know what that list is, you can probably go to they have a list of them on us embassy. The, state department has a list of places that they recommend. You don't go. If you have a clearance, you should probably listen to that list.
Especially if you have a high enough clearance. All right. Let me ask, answer another, read some more comments here. Deru thank you so much, sir, for that, that 20 bucks, I really appreciate you. It says, I appreciate all you do. Your courses have helped me tremendously to learn risk management framework for my everyday duties.
Thank you. And please keep up the great work and teaching people, man. Thank you Deru I really appreciate you, man. I appreciate this community. Thank you guys for watching me for all these years. Much appreciate it. All right. Let's keep going. I'm gonna answer a couple more questions. I'm not gonna be on here that long on this one.
Feel like I said what I needed to say, but if you guys have any questions, I'll stay as long as we have questions. Let me see I'm going on YouTube right now and answering some questions from there. Have a very lively, active community on YouTube. If you're interested in getting diving into this. But I have one, a couple comments on, TikTok says I agree with you.
you have to have some permission to go to some certain countries. You might get a polygraph. Wow. Yeah. He, this guy knows what he's talking about. So speaking back on, on this security clearance issue, not enough, really people really talk about this. And that's why I think I get so much traction on, YouTube and social media when I talk about this kind of stuff.
But he says he says, he, when I was, what I was saying is if you travel with a security clearance, you should get permission. The right thing to do is to talk to the organization. Okay. That's the safest and right thing for you to do. If you have a clearance, if you have anything I say above a secret, if you happen to work for, even if you don't have no clearance and you're working for a, an organization who deals with sensitive information, especially if you're trying to work from those countries, like you should really think about doing this, talk to the organization first and say, Hey, next month,  I'm going to Thailand next month.
I'm going to Indonesia. I'm going to Columbia, wherever the case may be. Just let 'em know. And what'll happen is because I've done this before the HR department will say here's a pamphlet of places. You shouldn't go in colo while you're in Columbia or you shit, you can't go to Cuba  you, can't go there.
Here's why. And you might not agree with it. You might think it's stupid and maybe it is. But the point is, if you try to go, you could lose your clearance and your job in certain places that you go to. And then he lamp seeker says they might do a polygraph test on you. Like when you get what he means is I think this is what he means.
This never happened to me. When you get back, they might ask you some questions and hook you up to a polygraph test to see if you're lying.  I'm not that's isn't that crazy? That's never happened to me, but a couple friends of mines that happened to that have a high enough clearance that, that happened to I'm like, wow, really?
Yeah. So just be mindful of that. You can go. But the right thing to do is to talk to your organization before you go and do your own research too, look at their policies, right? If you don't wanna say anything, you want your own privacy, whatever, do your own research, because they'll have a policy that tells you flat out, Hey, look at the HR departments travel.
They have a travel guide for you. Look at their read that thing, especially in the foreign country, foreign travel, read that, and they'll have a list of do not fly. Like you cannot go to these places. And here's why I a R whatever the case may be. Here's why you can't go. Or they'll say you can go there, but avoid these places, or you can go there, but.
Don't talk to you gotta avoid talking to just any random people coming up to you to asking you questions. And the reason why I say that is because one of the tactics that organizations from a foreign organizations will do is they'll have a casual, fine looking young lady. Come sit next to you at a bar and start asking you a bunch of questions and get real, real intimate with you and ask you a whole bunch of questions to get more and more information off you and try to date you.
If it's really serious, they'll date you like a damn spy and get even more information while they're dating you. Right now, you have a long distance relationship with a person who works for the CCP or something. If you think that this is crazy talk and spy talk, this actually happened to a couple Canadians, happens to Canadians and Americans.
You don't believe me. Look it. Like they work for the government or they work for a high level organization or just an organization. All these innovations they'll get really close to you. Then they'll start asking a bunch of questions. Just be careful. All right. Lamp seeker says, keep up what you're doing.
Thank you, sir. I appreciate that. It says even a secret that you have you have to get permission at least 30 days. Oh Oh. you're saying if you have a secret clearance. Okay. Okay. Listen to this. Here's some insider information right here. If you have a secret clearance, you have to get permission at least 30 days ahead, and some require 45 days or more.
So the right thing to do, and he says I'm an ISSO, but I was in industrial security for 15 years. Oh, here you go. Right here. So these guys put me on a game, like people like this is combo courses right here. This is what I'm. This is why I do this. People like this dude right here who come and educate me.
This is a great opportunity. A teaching moment. So I didn't know this. So listen to this. If you have a secret clearance, especially if you work in cyber security, right? Regardless it, if you could work in the hospital, sweeping floors, if you have a secret clearance, he's saying some organizations require you to let them know 30 to 45 days in advance.
And he's saying he's an ISSO, but he used to work in industrial security for 15 years. Industrial security are the guys who are really, deep into things like I a R really, deep into things like personnel security. So this guy knows what he's talking about. When one time I was doing it live and I was like, I don't know, I've never had a polygraph test and I don't know how it works and this dude just schooled me on it.
And I was able to, we were able to push that information out. So other people know information about a polygraph test. So I really appreciate that. Thank you, lamp seeker, great information. And he says, especially if you didn't get permission yeah. You gotta get, you should get permit. That's the right thing to do that's the right thing to do.
All right. Let me answer some questions on YouTube. And in Deru adds to that conversation, he says, always talk to the FSO of your company. And that's a correct me if I'm wrong, but facility security, officer functional security officer functional FSO is like a security person. Who, does secur personnel security.
Like they, they make sure that you, if you're gonna travel somewhere you're read up on any kind of issues that going on in that country. If there happen to be any things like that you, have to have situational awareness. You should know what you're just getting yourself into. If you do go to another country.
And that's something that I've been really good about, I travel quite a bit and I've been traveling even when I was in the military, I would travel. And you it's really important to know situational awareness. And let me just give you a couple stories, cuz I've been traveling since I've had up to top secret clearance and I've traveled extensively.
I've been to 15 different countries. And while I had clearances while I was working in the private public sector and I, know a little bit of something about this and I'm, gonna tell you a story. So when I I was in I used, I was stationed in, Korea. I was stationed in South Korea and this was in year 19.
I'm dating myself, but it was in 1,998  to, the year 2000  yeah I'm, a little older than I looked. Yeah, I was stationed there and I would just go off base. I would just roll. I would just roll off base. I was in Kusan and Osan that area. And I would I was actually in working in security.
I was a, I was physical security at the time. I was a security force member in the mil, in the military. That means I was military police as probably the thing. Everybody understand really. I was weapon specialist. I was high level security guard anyway, so I would just go on. I learned Korean onion, AHI come, Sony die.
I learned some Korean and then I'd get in the car. And the taxi, and then just go, and so the problem with that is that there's certain places in Korea that people don't really didn't at the time and probably same hated Americans at the time. There was a bunch of colleges that how colleges are, right.
There's just a lot of younger people and influenced by a, like a rebellious mindset. And they, it, bottom line is they hated Americans and they blamed the us for dividing the north and South Korea. And the reason why I know this for sure is cuz that's the red Eric. They were saying when they were out there protesting at the colleges and also that's what some of the gate guards, I would have to work with Korean.
The Royal the Republic of Korea army and air force, I would walk, I would talk to 'em. Some of 'em were really cool and taught me Korean and, I would talk to 'em about English and hip hop and stuff like that were really cool, but some of them hated me and they would not say three words to you.
And I would still talk to those guys and they would flat out telling me I don't like Americans and I'm.  and a little bit in Korean, why don't you like us? And they would tell me you guys divided the us government divided our country in half. And you guys are the reason why north and south are no longer speaking to one another it's you are the reason if you guys left, we'd be able to unite Korea and I'd be like, what?
I'm like, that's not what I was told, and I was like, then I thinking are both of us being fed propaganda for our go from our governments? I was just thinking about all this stuff long. Okay. Let me get back on track. So I'm off base and people are super cool with me. I'm some black dude in, South Korea in the middle of nowhere.
Nobody can speak English. I'm speaking, my broken ass Korean and people are super cool, but it's the older people who are. Younger people hated Americans. And so at certain places that you would go get back to base and I was cool, right? I just met a couple. I had this great experience in Korea and everything.
I was just like, happy but I get back to base and they said, Hey there was a dude who got killed. There was an army dude who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. And this mob of Koreans killed him because they were having a protest. And I don't know what this dude was thinking, but he was walking by college and this mob killed this dude.
And they were saying, do not go to these places. Here's the this area here, and this area here, if you are an American, do not go here, period, you are not allowed to go there. And they told us why they, killed more than one soldier who would happen to be near those. You might, they might have had a girlfriend there.
So I don't know, but these dudes were killed and I was like, damn. Luckily there were no not big colleges where I was at, but just situational awareness. You gotta know what's going on. So whenever you go off base, whenever maybe you have nothing to do with the military, you just traveling abroad or whatever, just know what's going on.
I'm not telling, I'm not trying to scare you from going abroad, man. You should definitely use leave the United States and go experience the world. Experience, humanity, experience other cultures, man, it's gonna open up your eyes to a whole different I'm different, man. I'm, I've been to several countries.
I've seen extreme poverty. I've seen extreme wealth. I've seen I know that the us lacks heavily in certain areas that we shouldn't lack in, but I know that we, that the us is so successful in or other areas. The U. The world is not what you think it's, way beyond what you believe or watch on TV or whatever.
Like you gotta go there though. I'm not trying to scare you into not going, but I'm just saying have situational awareness. One of the things that military taught me is you gotta know what's going on for your own safety and security. Read the news that's going on in that country at that time. See what's going on with that country.
I'll give you another story about situational awareness. Not too long ago, like maybe five years ago, I went to Thailand and I was in Thailand, me and my, wife at the time we were chilling. We had a great time. We I'd been there like four or five times or something. I've been there total four or five times love Thailand.
I've been to two different cities there and stuff. I just, the people are great, man. The the, monasteries I went to the monastery seen that sleeping monk. There's this giant like sleeping monk a sleeping Buddha ah, man, this is just amazing. I went to old Siam, which is now called a Utah. A beautiful place, man.
The people are so nice. I man, anybody who's never been there, man should try. It is check is so amazing, such an amazing place. Anyway, me and my wife at the time we were there, we're hanging out with chilling and we had a great time. We go to leave. We get on the plane and we're leaving. We are on the plane leaving.
And then as we are in the air as it's taken off, we learn that the, country just had a coup and they shut down the airport. So we, might have missed that coup by about 15 minutes, cuz we were already boarded and flying and they shut the airport down and nobody could leave. I had no idea this stuff was going on.
I was just there as a tourist. I didn't see any protests where I was at. I didn't see any of that stuff, but a little bit of situational awareness for me. Would've let me know. Hey, there's something going on?  I had no idea. And a lot of times, as a foreigner going to another country, you're totally clueless on this stuff.
Always have situational awareness, no matter what, whether you have a clearance or not, whether you work at a company that has sensitive information or not always know what's going on in that country, what's hot. What's going on, where not to go, where to go. You could find all this information on the internet a great resources would be the, embassy website.
They have, they usually like a breakdown of alerts and warnings of places and what's going on. They sometimes they're kidnapping Americans there. You know what I'm saying? Depending on where you go,  this certain, it's like any places you go it's if, somebody flew to the us, like the first thing you wanna know is like where, right?
So they could be going to Hawaii and having the time of their life, or they could be going to Detroit and about to get get got in certain places in Detroit, not saying all of Detroit's bad, but certain parts are not so good. Like you probably don't wanna go to Chicago O block on the south side, not a good look, not a good place to go.
And even people on O block in south Chicago will be like, no, don't come here. Do not, this is not a vacation spot.
all right. Let me see. Somebody said please, do you think that you can use that? I can use my PMP certification to get a job in cyber security cyber security space in the us. Are you not in the us right now? If you happen to be watching me right now, I got a question on TikTok. They're asking me do I think that they can use their PMP certification to get a job in the United States?
So it depend like you gotta gimme more information. Okay. So if you have a PMP, so first of all, congrat congratulations, PMP is an awesome certification. I know several Several cyber security. People who have a PMP who have a PMP who they got it because it's a lucrative certification. So congrats on that.
Can you get a job? Yes. The answer is yes. You, can if you're not in the United States, it's probably gonna take a little bit longer because you gotta have to get a remote job possibly I'm I don't know your situation, but the answer is yes, regardless of the situation, it might not be the job you want.
It might not be the money you want, but let me just let, I'm gonna demonstrate this to you right now live. Okay. What I'm gonna do is go to a common us website. It's called indeed in the us. You've got every country has top search engines that you gotta go to. If, you're trying to get a job in UK, the UK job search sites are not the same.
Are not gonna be the same as the ones in the United States are not gonna be same in India. Not gonna be the same and pick a country. They're all different. So the first, one of the first things you gotta do and whatever country you're going to is find out what are the top search engine. And I'm typing while I'm doing this.
What are the top search engines that I need to go to in order to find a job in the us? One of the top ones is called indeed.com, but there's several other ones in LinkedIn, monster.com, dice.com. Career builder.com, clearance jobs.com. Those are all us, but if you go to, if you were finding another country then it would be different.
Okay. So let me show you guys what I got going on here. If you happen to be watching me still on on TikTok or Facebook or YouTube, what I'm doing is I'm on indeed.com and I just typed in PMP certified. Project manager and, watch, let's see what results we get. I put fine jobs. You can do this on any search aggregator, by the way any, job search site.
So what you would probably wanna look at here, it depends on your situation. If you're not in the United States, you probably want to get this first one here. That's a remote position. And then look at the requirements. So they have qualification this one's 30 days old. So this is probably gone. See, one of the things you wanna do is search by posted date, but for now, like you probably wanna do it within 14 days, but for now, let's just look at this one as an example for, to get this, due a job.
So I, what I would do is I would go to indy.com, which was one of the top search engines in, this country. And we found one here is technical project support manager, and luckily project support PMP. Lends itself to remote positions. So that's why I say yes, you can find a job here. This is, this one has a salary of a hundred thousand a year.
That's pretty good. It's a full-time position. They require a bachelor's degree. In addition to your PMP, preferred bachelor's preferred. So you don't have to have one five years preferred. This is really good. If you happen, have a P and P you might wanna check this one out. If you don't make a hundred thousand, but I think this one might be gone because it's over 30 days already.
So let me actually, lemme switch the screen. So people on YouTube can see. All right. So what I'm reading, I'll read this. If you happen to be listening to me. So we already said that this stuff was preferred. Now let's get into the, if there's any caveats, meaning can you do this from another country?
So one of the questions I would ask if I was living in another country or abroad or something like that, or if I wanted to work remotely from a country like Bali not country in Indonesia in Bali. So I would wanna know do do they have restrictions on where I can work from that would be the next question.
So the answer is yes, you could find a job in the us is hot market. A lot of people say, oh, I can't find a job, man. It is booming, man. There's no problem in it. Finding jobs. Here's one right here. As a matter of fact, yeah, they got health plan. They probably have requirements cuz this is a government.
So government positions, just so you know, usually they'll say remote, but you have to be in the United States. And then another thing to look out for, if you happen to be not, if you're not a us citizen, another thing you probably wanna look out for is whether or not you have to be eligible for, a certain clearance security clearance, because eligibility means that you are a us citizen.
Or a naturalized citizen or something like that. So the answer is yes, you can get a PMP in the United States. You just have to look at the requirements of it and and, check out the site for that. And then the, other thing I didn't do on here is look at you. One of the things you have to do is look at jobs, posted and look at it from the last 14 days, rather than last 30 days.
Cuz it's gonna be a little bit different and look this one right, away. It says you have to be a us citizen or a car green card. This is exactly what I was talking about. This one's specifically saying you should have to be a green card holder or a green card holder. Let me show you here.
This is exactly what I was talking about. So yes, you can do it, but look, it is remote by the way, but they want you to have a PMP certification, but you have to be either a us citizen or a green car holder and they tell you right away. That's what you wanna look for. And then if they don't tell you on the job description, you have to do you, have to call 'em like call 'em and figure that out.
Hey, I want to know, can I work there? I'm living in another state. I'm living in another country. Is that a problem? Is there any travel whatsoever? Is it a problem that I'm not a green car holder? You got to ask 'em all these kinds of questions. PMP is an incredible certification by the way.
Really, good certification. A lot of technical guys, I know got one because it's it, pays like PMP actually pays, good money. Let me see it got some other questions here. I'll stick with Italy and Japan.  okay. Let me see here. I have some other YouTube questions. I'm gonna answer real quick.
If I can, did it just log me out. Oh man. Come on drew. Come on, dude. It just logged me out. Wow. I don't know why I did that. I can see myself live. Oh, wow. Okay. I don't know what's going on. I don't know why it logged me out, but I'm about at an hour. So I'm gonna cut this short here real quick.
Thank you guys so much for watching me. I really appreciate everybody who's watching. I re really appreciate my community. If you guys are interested in getting more, the show doesn't stop. You can always catch me on. You can email me. You can catch me on discord. You can catch me on TikTok. I'm always posting a new content, any kind of questions that you have, feel free to a ask me.
Most of my content comes from people asking questions. So I'll actually make a video about it. And if it's a really, good question that I'll be asked over and over again, I'll make an entire course out of it and spend weeks and months doing that. That's it for this one, guys. Thank you so much for watching.
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