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Infosec, AWS, and Risk Management is my day job; Long tenured CISO. Bad python coder and robotics tinkerer in free time. Dad of two amazing kids who I learn from everyday. #blueteam #infoseccofeeclub #boston
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I wish I could reach the correct audience to suggest to that, if you are going to work full time remote, especially for a mostly remote company for the first time, it is absolutely crucial that you learn how people communicate and actively participate in it. Not just how work information is disseminated. Join your “random” and hobby Teams or Slack channels. Meet people not on your direct team. Join a social group if your company sponsors one you find interesting. It indeed takes effort as an introvert - but while working remote you are not building relationships organically like in an office, at all. Those work relationships are important to getting stuff done in business, being noticed when opportunities come up, emotionally feeling part of a team and mission, and staying mentally healthy. We spend a big chunk of our lives working!

Over the last 5 years of working and managing a team FT remote, this social interactivity is one of the top indicators I’ve observed of whether someone will succeed and be balanced and happy, long term - or whether they will burn out and be left behind. The people who often vanish the fastest never chatted except when prompted to do so for business, never turned their camera on, nor set a profile image.

I’m not telling you to step way outside your comfort zone. I’m not saying there aren’t situations where it’s necessary to turn off the camera. I’m not saying you’ll automatically fail if you never socialize. I’m just giving you some advice based on hard life lessons of watching people thrive versus be unhappy.

Congratulations to Hayley Campbell, whose beautiful book All The Living And The Dead is nominated as Goodreads book of the year. It was a hard read but a heart-opening one. https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-nonfiction-books-2022
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Hello Mastodon.

I am looking for new PhD students to come work with me at the Oxford Internet Institute in 22/23 (@oiioxford) to study the future of data privacy and digital rights, the impact of AI and algorithms on digital platforms, and help co-create better digital futures.

Boosts very much appreciated! 🐘

#dataprivacy #digitarights #privacy #phd #academia

@tgs My strategy on Mastodon has been find people that boost a variety of other people which exposes me to a lot of different accounts. Then when I see a boost post of someone new to me, I check their profile to see if I should follow.

I always err on the side of Follow Now, Decide Later if I’m unsure, so I can taste test someone’s posts in my feed if I think I might like them

The accounts I follow with high quality boosts in #InfoSec , #Tech & some other topics:
- @GossiTheDog
- @neil
- @hacks4pancakes
- @dnsprincess (how I found you!)

Bonus: my instance’s admin (@jerry ) boosts a lot of relevant accounts on my instance - and also @notjustbikes boosts lots of cool people that like bikes, trains, & mass transit

I’m excited to be accepted for SANS work study this month! Going to DC for automating infosec with python 🐍 
Happy #caterday from Lucipurr (top) and Violet (bottom). Two very sweet kittens who are secretly plotting world domination. Violet will likely be available for adoption at the Animal Rescue League in Dedham this upcoming week. #catsofmastodon #CatsOfInfoSec #boston #catrescue

Anyone can recommend a basic / relatively cheap router that can be used as a backup with a 5G sim card?

#homelab

Until all the news organizations set up shop on Mastodon, I've been using the news.twtr.plus reflector to get breaking news in my feed. I've also created a Mastodon list just for news feeds. #news #breakingnews #feditips

List the #tags you are following with curl:

❯❯ curl -s --location --request GET 'https://infosec.exchange/api/v1/followed_tags' --header 'Authorization: Bearer PbAhBLA[SNIP]RvpYILw'| jq .[].name

"climatechange"
"cloudcomputing"
"vExpert"
"vmware"
"caturday"
"snootboopday"
"bees"
"Mosstodon"
"mushtodon"
"silentsunday"
"Mondog"

You can create a new Bearer Token here: https://infosec.exchange/settings/applications

#feditips

For all the cybersecurity sales and marketing folks, I really do appreciate that you have a hard job to do - but **nothing** turns me off more from taking a meeting with you than offering me a bribe. (Gift card, Airpods, etc.)