Tuesday, March 10, 2020

The Ties Between Tech and People

These days at Zscaler, Hodson finds gaps. Gaps that appear between company’s policies and how their networks operate. Gaps in encryption. Gaps in data protection moving back and forth from the cloud. And a host of other gaps that hackers are always on the lookout for as they seek a way into a network.

“Maybe that’s some kind of subconscious anti-establishment attitude,” Hodson said.To find those gaps he has to understand and appreciate the psychological motivations of a malevolent actor.

As always, CompTIA exams like to really test how well you follow instructions. Read the questions slowly and thoroughly. Then read the question again. I found myself flustered with a very simple question.

Here’s what happened:

On the 902 exam, one of the interactive questions asked to configure a new disk while accounting for future redundancy. Simple enough! So I went to initialize it and set the partitions as requested.

But Hodson, firmly on the side of the good guys, isn’t just using his expertise and insight to the benefit of the businesses he advises. He’s also doing it for the good of the cybersecurity profession.

As a member of CompTIA’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CAC), he helps revise and update intermediate and advanced cybersecurity certifications, including CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) and CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP), using his experience from the field to make sure CompTIA is benchmarking and testing on the things the most advanced cybersecurity professionals need to know.

And while making big decisions at this level may seem like a world away from the support-level IT role in which he began, for Hodson, the past isn’t so distant.

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