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The last 5 years have seen a marked shift inhow companies view cyber threat intelligence (CTI) as a building block of theirsecurity strategy, but there still is a lot of confusion about how to build aprogram that provides utility. At its core CTI aims to provide informationabout motivations, methods and characteristics of attackers. In today's rapidlyevolving threat landscape having timely access to CTI can be of significantvalue to security analysts. By looking beyond your own four walls organizationscan take faster mitigation action and also reduce their attack surface. AddingCTI to enterprise security programs can be an effective strategy to go from areactive to a proactive response. But the value of CTI is constrained by theability of enterprise security operations to contextualize, manage and actionupon it. This presentation will cover some fundamental CTI concepts, real worldchallenges in operationalizing it, and some easy ways to try it out foryourself.  Takeaways for the audience:1. Overview of CTI concepts, frameworks,standards, and how they fit in the enterprise security model.2. Clearer understanding of CTI data modelsand how they integrate with detection, protection and incident responseprocesses. 3. Practical ways to accelerate securityoperations and heighten defenses using CTI. About the speaker: Shimon Modi is a seasonedcloud cybersecurity products and people leader with 10+ years experience andproven record of launching leading edge B2B SaaS solutions. Throughout his career Dr. Modi has worked in technical and leadershiproles on a wide range of cyber security initiatives in industry, government andacademia.  Dr. Modi is currently a Principal ProductManager at Elastic focused on building security solutions. Previously he wasHead of Product at TruSTAR Technology where he led PM, Engineering and DataScience teams in building an innovative cyber intelligence management platform.He was also a member of Accenture Technology Labs  where he led cybersecurity initiativesfocused on threat intelligence and the Internet of Things. Dr. Modi has also served as a technical experton US National standards and a delegate for the US National Body for ISObiometrics standards. He has authored a book, co-authored several book chaptersand published over 15 technical journal and conference articles. He has alsobeen invited to speak as subject matter expert at IEEE conferences and hackerconferences, including Black Hat & ShmooCon.

Information sharing activities when combined with other threat intelligence activities can be seen as important part of the arrangements of human and non‐human activities that, together, form a critical part to achieving organizational resilience. There is a reciprocal relationship between all processes within an organization and the ways in which information is used and shared. Join us as we talk to Paul Kurtz; Former white house senior member relating to critical infrastructure and counterterrorism on the White House's National Security and Homeland Security Councils under Presidents Clinton and Bush and internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity and the co-founder and CEO of TruSTAR Technology. We discuss how to get the most out of your intelligence involving all applicable stakeholders to build this preventive culture that is weaved into the day-to-day way of operation incorporating more threat intelligence into every stage of the workflow.

Our guest today is Paul Kurtz. He’s the co-founder and CEO of TruSTAR Technology, a company that develops collaborative intelligence-sharing platforms with the goal of streamlining the distribution of actionable information for cybersecurity professionals. Paul Kurtz began working in cybersecurity at the White House in the late 1990s, and later served in senior positions relating to critical infrastructure and counterterrorism on the White House's National Security and Homeland Security Councils under Presidents Clinton and Bush. We’ll hear his views on information sharing and threat intelligence, and we’ll find out why he thinks that we may not be able to count on the government to protect us in the cyber realm.

Our guest today is Paul Kurtz. He's the co-founder and CEO of TruSTAR Technology, a company that develops collaborative intelligence-sharing platforms with the goal of streamlining the distribution of actionable information for cybersecurity professionals. Paul Kurtz began working in cybersecurity at the White House in the late 1990s, and later served in senior positions relating to critical infrastructure and counterterrorism on the White House's National Security and Homeland Security Councils under Presidents Clinton and Bush. We'll hear his views on information sharing and threat intelligence, and we'll find out why he thinks that we may not be able to count on the government to protect us in the cyber realm.

One day, Sean was working as a route setter at a rock climbing gym in Tennessee. The next, he was driving to San Francisco, without a plan, to start his career in tech. This is the story of his challenging, winding, but ultimately successful path to his first job as a software engineer. Written by Sean Smith: https://twitter.com/bonham_000 Read by Abbey Rennemeyer: https://twitter.com/abbeyrenn Original article: https://fcc.im/2JQwSXI Learn to code for free at: https://www.freecodecamp.org Intro music by Vangough: https://fcc.im/2APOG02 Transcript: One year ago, I was working part-time as a route setter at a rock climbing gym in Tennessee. Today I’m working as a software engineer at a cyber-security startup in San Francisco. My journey to this point has been unforgettable and life-changing. And yet as challenging as everything was, I think that any sufficiently-motivated person could do the same. Knowledge has become democratized. All you need to reach a competitive level in your field is time and dedication. This is especially true for the field of software engineering. In 2016, my life was falling apart When I started learning to code in 2016, I guess you could say my life was falling apart. I’d gone to college as a pre-med student, with degrees in biochemistry and anthropology. But I quickly became disenchanted with science and medicine, and left college with no clear path. I started working as a routesetter at rock climbing gyms for almost 2 years, but things were not going so well. I knew I was in need of a big change. I had been putting off learning to code for a long time, but I knew this was what I wanted to do. Finally, on my birthday in 2016, I committed to learning to code. I didn’t look back. At this point in time, I was vaguely familiar with the coding bootcamps that have become quite ubiquitous over the last few years. Luckily, I quickly discovered freeCodeCamp. When I realized that finishing their curriculum entailed writing software for non-profit organizations, I promptly joined and resolved that I would finish freeCodeCamp’s open-source curriculum before even considering a bootcamp. freeCodeCamp rapidly became the core of my education. I supplemented it with many other resources, such as podcasts, tutorials, open-courseware, and healthy doses of documentation and Stack Overflow when needed. Typical days involved me working through freeCodeCamp challenges and projects, which allowed me to progressively improve my skills. When sitting and writing code became unproductive, I would absorb material through other channels: audio, video, and so on. I moved back and forth between different learning methods, which was very useful in maintaining a strong level of engagement and focus. This was basically my process, and it allowed me to dedicate many hours to learning. Here it is by the numbers (roughly estimated): Total duration learning: less than 12 months Total hours: ~2,500 Total projects completed: 70+ Total CS courses watched: ~10 Total GitHub commits: 1,500+ Total lines of JavaScript written: 20,000+ Most of this learning took place in Knoxville, Tennessee, where I was living at the time. I had a strong desire to move to one of the major tech cities, so one day I woke up and naturally decided it was time to drive to San Francisco. That’s about exactly how it happened. That night I left, and about 3 weeks later arrived in the Bay Area. Plenty of time to listen to podcasts on the road. Arriving in San Francisco for my first real job search After arriving in San Francisco and completing the core freeCodeCamp curriculum (front-end, data visualization, and back-end certifications) I had a brief go at job applications. Around 65 or so. Literally no response. Remember, I had just driven into the Bay Area from across the country. I had no idea how competitive it would be, nor how much my skills were even worth to employers at their current level. Did freeCodeCamp actually measure up to the education of an in-person coding bootcamp? These feeler applications gave me a clear reading: I had to do more. The market is pretty competitive. So I rapidly revised my plans, extended my time horizon, and reached out to freeCodeCamp to begin a non-profit project, since I was now eligible to start one. Meanwhile, I began networking in the city as much as possible. The networking came easily enough, as freeCodeCamp has many self-organized campsites throughout the world’s cities. I got a quick response from freeCodeCamp’s team about the nonprofit projects. Some of my React projects had caught the eye of Michael D. Johnson and Quincy Larson, and they asked me whether I’d be interested in helping write their React curriculum. (freeCodeCamp itself is a nonprofit.) I also helped build a conference management tool for the Conference on Crimes Against Women. I was very excited about the opportunity to give back to this awesome community, so I quickly accepted the challenge. My React and Redux challenges are being incorporated into their newly expanded curriculum, which is now live in beta form live here. In addition, I chose to advance my timeline to 2017. I would continue studying on my own for the remainder of 2016 before applying for jobs again. I left San Francisco, droving north through Portland and Seattle to Bellingham, Washington. It was during these weeks in the Pacific Northwest that I worked non-stop to complete the React and Redux challenges. I collaborated with another freeCodeCamp contributor from New York, Peter Weinberg, and built around 80 coding challenges in total. This was probably one of the key moves that helped set my resume apart, because it represented a significant project that served a real-world organization’s needs. In late December, we finished the initial draft of the challenges and moved them into an official alpha release which is still generating feedback from the community. My triumphant return to San Francisco Back in San Francisco, I was almost ready to dive into job applications again. I had decided to join Outco, a crash course in interview preparation for software engineers. I had always been pretty opposed to spending money at a coding bootcamp (partly because I didn’t have the money), but I chose to join Outco because in my view they are trying to serve a different purpose. Outco is specifically targeting the interview process for software engineers, a process which causes friction for many, even experienced and skilled engineers. Although I could write JavaScript pretty well at this point, I definitely was not prepared to solve arbitrary algorithm questions on a whiteboard. That’s one of the key areas Outco tries to prepare students for, because, for better or worse, whiteboarding remains a favorite interview tactic of tech companies. In addition, I could defer payment to Outco until after I got a job. And, a reality check: I had been going many months now at a strong pace of probably 50+ hours a week of coding and learning, and I was now literally risking it all on my ability to get a job in one of the most expensive and competitive cities in the US. I had already made a sincere effort to apply to companies and failed miserably! The pressure and stress were definitely bearing down on me at this point. I knew success was going to depend heavily on my performance of the next few months. I joined Outco because I expected that their structured program and support would prove indispensable in this last miles of my journey, and it did. 2017 arrived and I started Outco. I began to work even harder than before. Tons of algorithms and data structures practice, whiteboarding questions, technical questions, pair programming, mock phone screens, systems-design questions—you name it, and lots of it. Not to mention applying to jobs again, and a lot more than I did the first time. And, of course, once you begin to get responses from companies it becomes very time-consuming (not to mention very stressful) to begin juggling all of these interviews at once. Practicing for interviews everyday is hard enough. Standing in front of a whiteboard in a real interview as they ask you about binary trees is much harder (and yes, interviewers asked me about binary trees). Again, the numbers tell the story more eloquently: Total applications: 192 (including the 65 from 2016) Total phone interviews: 17 Total take-home code challenges: 6 Total technical screens: 5 Total onsites: 3 Total offers: 1 Total time to offer: 6 weeks Success Rate: 0.52% That one offer was from TruSTAR Technology, and I have been so happy to join their team! TruSTAR is building a platform that allows companies to share cyberintelligence data in order to prevent and mitigate cyberattacks. I’m working on the frontend side of their application and putting to use the JavaScript skills I gained through freeCodeCamp. The experience has been incredible so far, and I have been honestly surprised by how well prepared I have been to begin making meaningful contributions to their codebase. Lessons I learned over the past 12 months Now, finally, here is some advice I would have for anyone looking to do something like this: You need real-world skills and you have to learn a lot. That means a lot of hours of work, there’s no way around it. Passion helps. Building projects is an excellent way to learn, and once you know enough it is not very hard to find open-source projects or other high impact projects to work on. JavaScript and React are great to learn and in high demand! But learn what interests you. It’s critical that you cultivate a community of others who are learning to code or working as engineers. Network in your city. Network online. Find collaborative projects to work on. Ask for help. If you can afford it, try to have some patience. This is what I struggled with the most. There you have it — the journey that led me across the US to begin a career as a software engineer! I’m sure everyone’s path will look different, that’s part of the fun. Find your own path and don’t be afraid to disregard other people’s views if you believe strongly enough in your own. That includes my views. The opportunities in the tech industry are real, and if you want them badly enough, you can find a way there. As an engineer, your job will be to solve problems, and if you are self-taught, the first problem you must solve is how do you teach yourself? Cheers everyone, and happy coding! P.S. A huge shoutout and thank you to the entire freeCodeCamp community and everyone I mentioned in this article (and a few others: Archie, Christian, Susan, Beemer Girl and all my friends from home). You have all proven invaluable in helping me accomplish this goal.

Domain shadowing occurs when a cybercriminal gains access to a known and trusted web domain, then creates malicious sub-domains designed to infect computer systems with ransomware and other forms of malware. And domain shadowing is a growing threat to businesses everywhere, according to Shimon Modi, a cybersecurity expert, a published author of IT security books, and the director of product and technology at TruSTAR Technology, which offers a well-known SaaS-based threat intelligence platform. In this installment of the FightRansomware Podcast, Modi explains how to protect your business from domain shadowing, ransomware and other cyberthreats. He also talks about threat intelligence and the importance of aligning cybercrime defenses with business priorities. Listen to the FightRansomware Podcast now to learn more.

03:08 - Benjamin Dunphy Introduction Twitter GitHub 04:07 - Berkeley Martinez Introduction Twitter GitHub Free Code Camp 04:19 - Ian Sinnott Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog TruSTAR Technology 05:19 - The React Codebase 12:38 - Other Important Parts of the React Ecosystem 14:22 - The Angular vs the React Ecosystem and Community The Learning Curve create-react-app 22:07 - Community Developer Experience Functional Programming 26:56 - Getting Connected to the React Community Meetup: Real World React @rwreact ReactJS San Francisco Bay Area Meetup Meetup Eventbrite Calagator Twitter Dan Abramov: My React List 29:34 - Conferences React.js Conf React Rally ReactNext ReactiveConf ReactEurope 33:28 - Technology From the Community redux ThunderCats.js 38:23 - Choices Are Expanding; Not Shrinking Linting 40:19 - The Future of React 42:39 - Starting More Communities   Picks This Developing Story (Aimee) Nashville (Aimee) Nodevember (Aimee) egghead.io: React in 7 Minutes (Ben) Lee Byron: Immutable User Interfaces @ Render 2016 (Ben) Nick Schrock: React.js Conf 2016 Keynote (Ben) create-react-app (Ian) Functional Programming Jargon (Ian) The Serverless Framework (Ian) Ben's Blog (Berkeley) Isaac Asimov’s Robot Series (Berkeley) Vsauce: The Zipf Mystery (Berkeley) Kinesis Advantage for PC & Mac (Dave)

03:08 - Benjamin Dunphy Introduction Twitter GitHub 04:07 - Berkeley Martinez Introduction Twitter GitHub Free Code Camp 04:19 - Ian Sinnott Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog TruSTAR Technology 05:19 - The React Codebase 12:38 - Other Important Parts of the React Ecosystem 14:22 - The Angular vs the React Ecosystem and Community The Learning Curve create-react-app 22:07 - Community Developer Experience Functional Programming 26:56 - Getting Connected to the React Community Meetup: Real World React @rwreact ReactJS San Francisco Bay Area Meetup Meetup Eventbrite Calagator Twitter Dan Abramov: My React List 29:34 - Conferences React.js Conf React Rally ReactNext ReactiveConf ReactEurope 33:28 - Technology From the Community redux ThunderCats.js 38:23 - Choices Are Expanding; Not Shrinking Linting 40:19 - The Future of React 42:39 - Starting More Communities   Picks This Developing Story (Aimee) Nashville (Aimee) Nodevember (Aimee) egghead.io: React in 7 Minutes (Ben) Lee Byron: Immutable User Interfaces @ Render 2016 (Ben) Nick Schrock: React.js Conf 2016 Keynote (Ben) create-react-app (Ian) Functional Programming Jargon (Ian) The Serverless Framework (Ian) Ben's Blog (Berkeley) Isaac Asimov’s Robot Series (Berkeley) Vsauce: The Zipf Mystery (Berkeley) Kinesis Advantage for PC & Mac (Dave)

03:08 - Benjamin Dunphy Introduction Twitter GitHub 04:07 - Berkeley Martinez Introduction Twitter GitHub Free Code Camp 04:19 - Ian Sinnott Introduction Twitter GitHub Blog TruSTAR Technology 05:19 - The React Codebase 12:38 - Other Important Parts of the React Ecosystem 14:22 - The Angular vs the React Ecosystem and Community The Learning Curve create-react-app 22:07 - Community Developer Experience Functional Programming 26:56 - Getting Connected to the React Community Meetup: Real World React @rwreact ReactJS San Francisco Bay Area Meetup Meetup Eventbrite Calagator Twitter Dan Abramov: My React List 29:34 - Conferences React.js Conf React Rally ReactNext ReactiveConf ReactEurope 33:28 - Technology From the Community redux ThunderCats.js 38:23 - Choices Are Expanding; Not Shrinking Linting 40:19 - The Future of React 42:39 - Starting More Communities   Picks This Developing Story (Aimee) Nashville (Aimee) Nodevember (Aimee) egghead.io: React in 7 Minutes (Ben) Lee Byron: Immutable User Interfaces @ Render 2016 (Ben) Nick Schrock: React.js Conf 2016 Keynote (Ben) create-react-app (Ian) Functional Programming Jargon (Ian) The Serverless Framework (Ian) Ben's Blog (Berkeley) Isaac Asimov’s Robot Series (Berkeley) Vsauce: The Zipf Mystery (Berkeley) Kinesis Advantage for PC & Mac (Dave)