Looking In The Rear View Mirror After 25 Years In The Industry
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A 25-year retrospective on working in information security, covering hands-on roles like penetration testing, auditing, bug hunting and training. It discusses long-term experience reporting vulnerabilities (dozens of CVEs since 2002) and teaching tools such as Burp Suite Pro, drawing on real-world lessons learned across those technical roles.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 1:22Retrospective of 1999
- 6:46Industry career timeline
- 11:41Cloud and virtualization
- 13:23Security vulnerabilities
- 17:27Tooling and bug bounty
- 22:33Security axioms
- 30:04Weird machines
- 37:13Takeaways and final advice
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