Ep. 158 - Security Awareness Series - Don't Act Old And Other Advice with Paul Asadoorian

The Social-Engineer Podcast

This month, Chris Hadnagy and Ryan MacDougall are joined by Paul Asadoorian. Paul is the founder of Security Weekly, a security podcast network. Paul spends time “in the trenches” coding in Python, testing security products and evaluating and implementing open-source software. Paul's career began by implementing security programs for a lottery company and then a large university. As Product Evangelist for Tenable Network Security, Paul also built a library of materials on the topic of vulnerability management. When not hacking IoT devices, web applications or Linux, Paul can be found researching his next set of headphones, devices for smoking meat, and e-bikes. November 15, 2021.

00:00 – Intro

• Social-Engineer.com
• Managed Voice Phishing 
• Managed Email Phishing 
• Adversarial Simulations 
• Social-Engineer channel on SLACK 
• CLUTCH 
• innocentlivesfoundation.org 
• Human Behavior Conference

03:34 – Paul Asadoorian Intro

05:08 – How did you get started in infosec?

13:19 – When did you decide you were going to start a podcast?

24:26 – What have you learned from the guests you’ve had on your podcasts over all of these years?

27:00 – What is your perspective on the shifting of hacking culture in the community?

34:53 – What are the best qualities someone could have to be attractive to a potential employer in this industry?

37:14 – How do we get the younger generation to have the qualities we are not seeing?

41:38 – Who is your greatest mentor?

• Laurie Baker
• Stephen Northcutt @ SANS
• Ed Skoudis @ SANS

46:00 – Book Recommendations

• Code Girls
• The Phoenix Project
• The Unicorn Project
• Countdown to Zero Day
• The Cuckoo’s Egg
• Cyberpunk

51:00 – Guest Wrap Up

• https://securityweekly.com
• www.twitter.com/securityweekly

53:31 – Outro

• innocentlivesfoundation.org