Cybersecurity/Info security career

Originally Posted by Unregistered

420k per annum as a FAANG security engineer at age 32. Local uni grad. I interview for candidates across Asia Pacific who are paid 240-420k. Feel free to ask me anything.

1) How to prepare for interview for FAANG security engineer? Leetcode questions?
2) What certs do you have?
3) What kind of security engineer (Pentest, Infra, SRE, devops, SOC/IR) ?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Not much negotiation frankly. Just prove you're competent and the companies will pay. The hr and management knows how much the market is paying. I've 10+ cybersecurity certs (all the gold standards) and have always been in big tech. I know both technical level stuff and strategic stuff and a bit of management (team lead). If you ask me to calculate encryption by hand I can do it. If you ask me about evasion techniques, I can demonstrate it. If you ask me about defense and how to tighten policies, I can do it too. I also code in python building automation in the cloud for incident response.

I consider myself above average in big tech. There's a lot more smarter people in faang who knows significantly more and deeper than I do. In terms of interviews if you're keen, yeah, I test candidates across multiple domains for breath and depth. From ha, Dr, coding, memory management, strategic, security compliance, Linux, cluster management, kubernetes etc. Normally we need the candidates to hit at least 75% of the questions, if not, we can't hire. as the work we do impact millions with every change or publication.

Ty! Self development wise, what advice would you give to somebody doing security ops?

I've read through all the threads and realized no one mentioned SSCP as a cyber security personnel.

Want to go into path of doing day 2 security analyst(i think?) that does pro-active(prevention) checks on threats/attack, which roles are more suitable as I've checked across CareerSG, JS, LinkedIn but found almost none similar to this.

Any legit recommendations is appreciated.
TGIF peeps

Interested in cybersecurity but has no prior experience. Any company take in mid career switcher?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Interested in cybersecurity but has no prior experience. Any company take in mid career switcher?

Can try Ensign. They quite friendly to mid career switcher.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Can try Ensign. They quite friendly to mid career switcher.

Is this still a bad place? Not much good reviews from the first few pages

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Interested in cybersecurity but has no prior experience. Any company take in mid career switcher?

try PulseSecure if interested in pentesting

Originally Posted by Unregistered

try PulseSecure if interested in pentesting

Any reviews on this company?

try oem vendors like fortinet, they are recently hiring SOC folks
if security doesnt work out for u, a cert from firewall vendor would be useful too

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Any reviews on this company?

cookie cutter pen testing