Robin Stuart started off as a paralegal until she was challenged one day to get her boss's password (hint: do not challenge Robin). Fast forward, she switched careers to technology but kept a lookout for a career in security.

Bio

Veteran cybercrime investigator and contributing author to the Handbook for Information Security by Wiley, Robin is a debut author in cybercrime fiction with a short story in the Sisters in Crime NorCal anthology Fault Lines, which is due out in early 2019.

She consults on all things cybersecurity for Fortune 100 companies, television shows, and media outlets, including BBC and NowThis News.

She was a significant contributor to the Tech Museum of Innovation's acclaimed Cyber Detectives interactive installation, one of the museum's most popular permanent exhibits, which earned praise from the Obama Administration.

Notes
Combination of Enthusiasm and Perseverance
Creativity matters a lot!
Setting up a home lab to train
Robin's First "Hack"! EPIC!
There isn't a linear path into information security, no need for a degree necessarily

Quotes
"[After] years of being a paralegal, I think like a lawyer and that's helped me very well"
"My Google works a little better than other people's Google."
Someone once asked Robin, "I've got an hour... can you teach me everything you know?"
"Taught myself Assembly by writing a program all in assembly, just to prove to myself that I understood it."

Links
Robin Stuart on Twitter
Robin's Upcoming CyberCrime Short Story
Robin's Twitter
Year Up Program
Lexis Nexus DB
Shellcoder's Handbook
Information Security Handbook by Wiley
Reversing
Practical Malware Analysis
Outro Music

Robin Stuart started off as a paralegal until she was challenged one day to get her boss's password (hint: do not challenge Robin). Fast forward, she switched careers to technology but kept a lookout for a career in security.
Bio
Veteran cybercrime investigator and contributing author to the Handbook for Information Security by Wiley, Robin is a debut author in cybercrime fiction with a short story in the Sisters in Crime NorCal anthology Fault Lines, which is due out in early 2019.
She consults on all things cybersecurity for Fortune 100 companies, television shows, and media outlets, including BBC and NowThis News.
She was a significant contributor to the Tech Museum of Innovation's acclaimed Cyber Detectives interactive installation, one of the museum's most popular permanent exhibits, which earned praise from the Obama Administration.
Notes
<ul>
<li>Combination of Enthusiasm and Perseverance</li>
<li>Creativity matters a lot!</li>
<li>Setting up a home lab to train</li>
<li>Robin's First "Hack"! EPIC!</li>
<li>There isn't a linear path into information security, no need for a degree necessarily</li>
</ul>
Quotes
<ul>
<li>"[After] years of being a paralegal, I think like a lawyer and that's helped me very well"</li>
<li>"My Google works a little better than other people's Google."</li>
<li>Someone once asked Robin, "I've got an hour... can you teach me everything you know?"</li>
<li>"Taught myself Assembly by writing a program all in assembly, just to prove to myself that I understood it."</li>
</ul>
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Links
<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/rcstuart">Robin Stuart on Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sincnorcal.org/wp/faultlines/">Robin's Upcoming CyberCrime Short Story</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.robincstuart.com/">Robin's Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.yearup.org/">Year Up Program</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.lexisnexis.com">Lexis Nexus DB</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Shellcoders-Handbook-Discovering-Exploiting-Security/dp/047008023X">Shellcoder's Handbook</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-131579.html">Information Security Handbook by Wiley</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Reversing-Secrets-Engineering-Eldad-Eilam/dp/0764574817/">Reversing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Malware-Analysis-Hands-Dissecting/dp/1593272901/">Practical Malware Analysis</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.audioblocks.com/stock-audio/feeling-ready-for-it-94173.html">Outro Music</a></li>
</ul>

Interviews with people who have transitioned and got jobs in #infosec and #cybersecurity so you can learn and be inspired from their experience. There is no linear path into the field of Information Security, so the hope is that you will resonate with at least one of the guests. Some of my guests were teachers, paralegals, librarians, military vets, developers, and IT help desk techs (to name a few) before transitioning. Also featuring "spoof" ads poking fun at the industry.

Interviews with people who have transitioned and got jobs in #infosec and #cybersecurity so you can learn and be inspired from their experience.

Getting Into Infosec

Robin Stuart started off as a paralegal until she was challenged one day to get her boss's password. (Hint: Do not challenge Robin).  Fast forward she switched careers to Technology but always kept a lookout for a career in security. Oh... she's also a cyber-crime author!

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