It has been one of the worst weeks I have seen in my entire career for cybersecurity jobs in America. Between government cuts of normally stable roles in defense to entry and mid tier cuts in large corporations, you need to check in with your networks and share any postings you have with them. - ThreadSky

hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy • 3 days ago

It has been one of the worst weeks I have seen in my entire career for cybersecurity jobs in America. Between government cuts of normally stable roles in defense to entry and mid tier cuts in large corporations, you need to check in with your networks and share any postings you have with them.

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mossyfoot.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy•3 days ago

@hacks4pancakes I no longer recommend that young people go into infosec. HVAC. Learn HVAC.

darwinwoodka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•3 days ago

@mossyfoot @hacks4pancakes

Mmmhmmm I do need a heat pump system installed

mossyfoot.pdx.social.ap.brid.gy•3 days ago

@darwinwoodka @hacks4pancakes I like our Mitsubishi Mr Slim-based system.

ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy•3 days ago

@hacks4pancakes security results only in the absence of compromise. Awfully easy to conflate that with the absence of attacks. USA is in for a profound thrashing. We're being run by people whose only play is attack and offense (in every meaning)

Beggarmidas.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@hacks4pancakes before you. Forced to agree to your terms unconditionally, because if someone fucks up they can be dunked back to the stone age at will. Shortly eaten alive metaphorically by their rivals & enemies unless they relented.
The first peerage with such power, and likely the […]

hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@Beggarmidas we older defenders ALL could have gone the other way a long time ago made made a ton more money,

Beggarmidas.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@hacks4pancakes I was there in a PHYSEC tangential way. I remember. Also why i'm aware of the true power you & your cohorts temporarily wield...If y'all could just get most on the same page long enough to exercise it. When we're all staring at the burning embers of what once was will be a […]

Beggarmidas.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@hacks4pancakes It's gonna keep getting worse until there's nothing left to defend.
I find your peerage curious. Y'all are the first non-nobility in all of recorded history with the collective access, power & reach to hold civilization itself hostage. Y'all could shut down every sector of […]

hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•3 days ago

The impacts on national defense in general, particularly against state adversaries, are going to be far reaching.

hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•3 days ago

If you are not hiring, please just check in on peoples' mental health. Offer to review resumes. Offer connections and networks.

hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•3 days ago

Dump any university selling a “skills shortage” in entry level right now. They are criminally negligent and more concerned with sales than student success. Entry level candidates are having to go to absurd lengths beyond masters to be competitive at all.

martinvermeer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy•3 days ago

@hacks4pancakes Europe?

hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy•3 days ago

@martinvermeer I mean there are few easy ways for American grads to get jobs there.

martinvermeer.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy•3 days ago

@hacks4pancakes I can imagine that. Europe ought to do more.

emc2.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy•3 days ago

@hacks4pancakes we are *SO* unbelievably fucked...

I'm at a baseline of like, 3 dairy farms[0] these days.

[0]: a "dairy farm" is a semi-whimsical unit of measure of despair over things being hopelessly broken, coined by my colleagues in response to my own propensity for saying "I'm going to […]

wollman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@emc2 As someone who grew up in Vermont, at a time when the dairy industry was crashing hard, that's an exceedingly large amount of despair.

CaptMorgan.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@hacks4pancakes Anyone who knows anyone in cyber security with TS or higher clearance looking for a new position DM me

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