Description: This is the video of the talk titled "Diplomatic Security Consulting" given at LayerOne 2009 by Kevin A. Nassery. The slides can be downloaded here.
Talk Description: Security consulting offers unparalleled opportunities for professional learning. In fact, each new engagement offers a new systems infrastructure, new security challenges, and a unique opportunity to make significant, long-term contributions through leading, progressive, short-term projects. Interestingly, some brilliant security minds today lack the ability to navigate and adapt to the non-technical challenges in a given environment. This talk will provide real-world accounts of difficult customer engagements and build on some of the successes and failures charted during my own career.
Sample topics:
* Why “you’re dumb” will not get you very far.
* Simply being correct does not establish credibility among those who cannot understand you.
* Establishing influence quickly within an organization.
* Understanding why and how you were engaged.
* Understanding the evolution (or devolution) of security issues.
* Maintaining a perspective for the tools and skills present within an organization.
* Maintaining a focus on active engagement.
Author Info: Kevin A. Nassery is a hands-on technical architect, who has been an active Unix systems, network, and security engineer and consultant for more than a decade. After serving for more than four years as principal infrastructure architect for a major online presence, he recently returned to his passion of security consulting. At present, he is a RHCE, CISSP, and a graduate student at Depaul University, where he studies Computer, Information, and Network security. He is currently a senior security consultant with Consciere LLC.
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