Mickey Lasky

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ABOUT MICKEY LASKY

I\'ve been immersed in Internet security for over 20 years and it’s constantly evolving. The attackers aren\'t resting or losing their skills and that means I can\'t either. When I\'m not developing my own skills and processes in my home lab or absorbing open source training to keep my skills up, I am taking professional training and maintaining my certs. My SANS certs (SANS GCFA, GCFE, GWAPT, GREM, and GNFA), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and Red Hat Certified Engineer, as well as Splunk user and admin training give me a wide and stable base to hone my craft.My skills and experience are not just classroom-based. I\'ve put them to use in environments ranging from the Federal Government to large and mid-size corporate settings to higher education. I\'ve helped create and implement information security programs from scratch, stepped into existing organizations and helped them excel, and played key roles in the standing up of a entire global SOC and SIEM solution for a company of over 100k employees. I\'m comfortable in roles from incident response, security analysis, digital forensics, SecOps, IDS/IPS and SIEM implementation, all the way to security awareness and technical training.I enjoy approaching security as an ever-changing puzzle that is begging to solved. I find the patterns, learn new strategies, observe the results, figure out how to make it better, faster, stronger, and then I turn around and learn more. When I discover something that interests me I like to give back by training and mentoring those around me. I find it rewarding helping people understand something that impacts all of us every day, from the C-Suite to my colleagues to my community. When I speak about our work I know no one likes a dry boring technical dissertation, so I leverage a background in professional journalism to make technical talk accessible and entertaining to just about any audience.Let’s talk about how I can bring all these benefits to bear on your information security needs.