It was there that security began to play a role, I discovered major vulnerabilities in in this system which lead to a title change from POC systems administrator to Security Officer. It was around this time that the Firewall came out and I became responsible for deploying and testing the security of all things medical.
A few years in, the internet happened and I was doing a little moonlighting :-) One of those gigs turned out to be for the United Nations, so for a while I ran both the hospital systems and deployed the UN Missions Web and email services. Shortly after and due to the fact that many of the people I met knew nothing about security I decided to write a class about how hacking ad security testing is done.
It was called Applied Penetration Testing. I went on to provide consulting services and training for many years before I went to work at Terremark (Now a Verizon company) where it lead to the entertainment industry and ultimately what I am doing now with Seguru.
I remember you saying, the cyber security world has 0 unemployment because there is a large demand for good hackers. Many people might read this and say, “hey I want to become a hacker”, what’s your advice?
Normally I say it’s never too late to start a new passion but this is not an industry where you learn it all and become elite in a couple of years.