Career on System Overlord

Finding My Inspiration

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been having a lot of trouble lately, feeling like I’m not doing the things I need to do to move towards my personal goals or ensure that I continue to do interesting work. As one of several things I’m trying to do, I’m trying to catalog things that have inspired me recently, or whose work I aspire to imitate. This is a no-particular-order list of classes, presentations, videos, papers, and other that remind me why I love working in Information Security, in hopes that it will help me find my mojo and enthusiasm for what I do again.

Getting Started in Information Security

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Sat, 13 Sep 2014 19:30:22 +0000

I’ve only been an information security practitioner for about a year now, but I’ve been doing things on my own for years before that. However, many people are just getting into security, and I’ve recently stumbled on a number of resources for newcomers, so I thought I’d put together a short list.

A Career Plan

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:01:17 +0000

I've made several career plans for myself before, but I don't think I've ever done it in a formal manner. I've never said to myself "I should make a career plan" until I was sitting in Martin Fisher's "How to Hack the Career Development Life Cycle" at B-Sides Atlanta. It had always been more of a "I want to do this, so first I need to learn this technology" kind of mentality. However, Martin's talk really made me think. In some ways, it was sort of unsettling, but I think it can be unsettling anytime you start to really think about the direction your life is going. I had a sort of "life passing me by" feeling by the end of the presentation (through no fault of his -- it was a great presentation, with some great takeaways.) I'm hoping making myself this transparent doesn't come back to bite me later, but I'm also hoping that this transparency might get me some feedback from my more experienced readers. (Insert "what readers?" joke here.)