This talk offers helpful advice for newcomers and early entrants to the information security field. If you have the passion to enter this field, this talk will help guide you through acquiring skills, getting the most out of college, finding a job, and managing your career. This talk seeks to answer the questions most frequently asked by students in Dan's Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Analysis class at the Polytechnic Institute of NYU and draws significant material from his own experiences.
Dan Guido collects security intelligence and detects and responds to intrusions for a large financial institution in NYC. He devotes most of his free time to teaching a class on Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Analysis at NYU:Poly and helping his local OWASP chapter.