Sign in Subscribe

Brian Weidner

Brian Weidner

GRC Analyst: The Business Side of Security Nobody Talks About

GRC Analyst: The Business Side of Security Nobody Talks About

GRC gets dismissed as the paperwork side of security. That framing is wrong, and it costs organizations real capability when they apply it to hiring and career development. Governance, Risk, and Compliance is the function that connects the technical work of security to the business decisions that actually determine risk,

Incident Responder: The Career for People Who Run Toward the Fire

Incident Responder: The Career for People Who Run Toward the Fire

Incident response is the most high-stakes role in cybersecurity and one of the most valuable career foundations you can build. When something goes wrong inside an organization, the IR team is the one that figures out what happened, stops the bleeding, and prevents it from happening again. The pressure

Identity and Access Management: The Role That Controls Every Door in the Building

Identity and Access Management: The Role That Controls Every Door in the Building

Identity and Access Management is the security function that determines who gets in, what they can access, and when their access gets revoked and it is one of the most underappreciated disciplines in the industry until something goes wrong. Over 80% of breaches involve identity compromise in some form. Stolen

Cloud Security Engineer: The Role That's Reshaping Cybersecurity

Cloud Security Engineer: The Role That's Reshaping Cybersecurity

Cloud security engineering is the fastest-growing specialty in cybersecurity right now, and the demand gap is not closing it is widening. Every organization that has moved workloads to AWS, Azure, or GCP has created a security engineering need that most traditional security programs are not staffed to meet. If

InfoSec Certifications, Home Labs, and the Skills That Actually Get You Hired

InfoSec Certifications, Home Labs, and the Skills That Actually Get You Hired

Most people trying to break into cybersecurity spend too much time debating which certification to get next and not enough time building the hands-on skills that hiring managers are actually filtering on. Certifications matter — they validate knowledge, signal commitment, and open doors with recruiters who use them as keyword

Breaking Into Information Security: The Complete Guide for Beginners

Breaking Into Information Security: The Complete Guide for Beginners

Information security is one of the most in-demand career fields in the world right now, and there is no gatekeeping requirement that says you need a computer science degree or twenty years of IT experience to get in. What the field actually needs and what it is actively hiring

Project Glasswing & Claude Mythos: What CISOs Need to Know Right Now

Project Glasswing & Claude Mythos: What CISOs Need to Know Right Now

Anthropic just released the most capable offensive cybersecurity AI ever built, found thousands of previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and browser, and then decided the model was too dangerous to release to the public. That is not a hypothetical scenario. That is what happened on