Tim: Analytical skills for detection and response
1. Tim: Analytical skills for detection and response
Hi, my name is Tim. I work on the Detection and Response team at Google. Our responsibility here is to defend Alphabet from being hacked. Google is a target for literally every attacker out there, from the most sophisticated nation state attackers to criminals that would look to steal, you know, money and steal information and other resources, and also, you know, kind of your run-of-the-mill vandals and run-of-the-mill folks that would just, you know, look to cause chaos and do harm. The job is very hard, but it's also very rewarding. I mean, being able to protect, you know, the information and protect all of the data that users entrust with us, billions of users entrust with us, is, at the end of the day, extremely rewarding. I studied political science and history in college, but during that time, I did work at the IT department at my university. And the reason I was able to do that was because I tinkered with computers throughout my childhood, right, so, you know, getting my first kind of XT computer, breaking it a bunch of times, having to learn to fix it, learning MS-DOS, et cetera you know, unbeknownst to me, set me up to be able to work in the IT department as a help desk operator, and then growing from there into this field now. Cloud is the present and cloud is the future. If you look in the next 10, even 15 years, everything is moving to the cloud. And I'm not just talking about infrastructure service, but I'm talking about the pillars that run the cloud and understanding the identity pillar, understanding, you know, virtualization, understanding software defined networking, all of those pillars, those are not going away. They're only increasing in stature, increasing in complexity, and increasing in importance. Cloud is a field that I would highly encourage, not just people to join, but people to learn that come from a quote-unquote traditional technical background. I think for people with a non-traditional background, when you build on your communication, when you build on your analytical thinking, those will serve you in any field that you apply yourself to. Everybody who has, you know, had to figure out how to run a schedule in their own life, always had to figure out, you know, how to juggle school and work and two jobs and whatnot, those are all skills that once you kind of zone in and name them, you've had them your whole life. All of this is achievable. For example, I'm a college dropout. I never finished college. It's not about the amount of education that you have. It's not about what you've been through in your past. It's really about the ability to learn new skills and, you know, putting yourself out there and applying yourself into this world. The world of technology is so vast and it's growing so fast. It may seem overwhelming, but really, you know, zoom in on the one or two skills you want to build at a time. Make one step forward after the next step forward, and, you know, anybody can do this.2. Let's practice!
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