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Infosec Skills Gap

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Ricoh Danielson is a U.S. Army Combat Veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan and founder of (Fortitude Tech LLC). Problem statement:

There is a huge demand for infosec professionals but at the same time, many aspiring security personnel are unemployed and left to the wind due to the fact that employers and companies don’t allow them to obtain the skills needed through on-the-job training. This is what some refer to as the “skills gap.”

It's not just the novices that are suffering through this. Many experienced workers who are looking to learn a new area of infosec are also caught in this trap. Solution statement:

Noting this gap, I took the initiative to start up EXXOTeck Training out of San Jose. There, I am bridging the gap for underemployed, unemployed, and/or learning adults who are seeking to gain real-life skill sets in cyber security. In line with market demands, we’re providing hands-on experience by bringing in world-leading experts from Cisco, AWS and other services providers to help students connect the dots.

The industry needs much more of this.

These hands-on experiences can range anywhere from creating a network and peer-conducted penetration testing to studying companies and reviewing their defensive postures. Many times, students will find themselves in a scenario where they are either conducting a security assessment or acting as a CEO. Consequently, students can learn what it means to do the job of a cyber security professional and to know what overall business impact this type of work might have.

Tuesday Photo Challenge - Animals

The Tuesday Photo Challenge is a weekly theme-based challenge for photographers of all kinds to share both new and old photography. #fpj-photo-challenge

The Tuesday Photo Challenge is a weekly theme-based challenge for photographers of all kinds to share both new and old photography. This week's theme is animals

The only animals I saw this week were a deer that ran across the road while on the way to the office and the squirrel running across the road while coming back from getting my hair cut. It's winter here. The animals are in hiding. It's dark when I leave home on my commute to work. It's still dark when I leave the office to come home for dinner. I get most of my photography done on the weekend. And this weekend was dark and damp.

These particular animals shown here are family. My sister-in-law's husband -- the bigger animal in the photo -- is celebrating his 40th year of his birth. The little animals lined up to ensure the were awarded a share of the sugared dough covered with colored sugar. It was like watching lions hunt. The little ones are my wife's cousin nephews. That's a way of saying it's her two first cousin's kids. I am not sure who the ladies in the right background are, but they are the family of family.

The one lady in the middle background is my wife. Sometimes she thing I small like an animal.

Yes, human beings are animals. Some would say the most dangerous ones on the planet. We kill for sport. We eat more than we need to sustain our bodies. We take what we want from the earth and give nothing back. We are more like viruses.