Cybereason Reddit AMA: How to Launch a Career in Information Security

What does it take to make a successful career in cyber security?

Our first AMA with Cybereason security researchers and incident response team was hosted on Reddit on Thursday, June 1st.

Join the AMA to learn about career options and how to advance as a professional in the information security industry.

What's an AMA:

AMA stands for Ask Me Anything. It is a type of Q&A, hosted on the online community of Reddit. During these events, a professional, or a person of interest, attempts to answer any questions brought up by the community (the IAMA community has ~16 Million subscribers).

• These events tend to be very casual in tone
• Anyone is welcome to create an AMA, whether you’re the president of the United States (Obama’s AMA: 216K upvotes, 23K comment), or the guy that worked as the Goofy character at Disney World for over 20 years (116K upvotes, 12K comments)
• Any and all questions are welcomE
• These events are short! There’s usually only an hour or two for people to ask questions, but there’s plenty of time to answer questions later on
• Great opportunity for people to learn something new!

Why we're hosting this AMA:

We'd like to share our experience and hope it could assist young professionals to choose and advance a career in. Our team includes a variety of experts from various backgrounds:

• Work experience varies from 1 year to 25 years in InfoSec
• Some have a GED, some have multiple PhDs
• Some came from IT, SysAdmin, Programming, Investigations, or Radio Equipment backgrounds
• Most of our team members are self-taught and transitioned from other fields (some not even from technology)
• All of our team members had a passion project or white whale that led them to this field

Between all of us, there's a ton of knowledge we'd like to share. Fact is, the demand for good people in this field is far outgrowing the supply.

Of course, it being an AMA, we would love to answer any question that pops up.

Who's going to participate:

Leading the AMA is Amit Serper, principal security researcher at Cybereason. He's been doing low level operating system research, reverse engineering, vulnerability research, exploitation, malware analysis and research tools development for most of his adult life. Aiding him are members of our incident response team, all with different backgrounds and specialties. Between all of them, our team has impersonated a plane, cloned building badges, broke into networks, found new malware, won hacking competitions, and cut bad guys off at the proverbial knees.

When, and where:

UPDATE: We were live!