The Paramedic's Guide to Surviving Cybersecurity

The security world is fraught with cases of mental health issues, burnout, substance abuse, and even suicide. We live in a world of threats and responses that trigger the deepest parts of our psyche; with the barriers between "online" and the physical world constantly crumbling. While some deal in theory, many of us deal with real incidents, challenges, and dangers every day and are constantly looking for techniques to respond better while staying saner.

Rich Mogull has 30 years of experience as an EMT and Paramedic and over 20 years in information security. He's worked in inner cities, on mountaintops, and in major national disasters. Over the decades of following parallel careers he's realized not only the high degree of similarities between the two very-technical fields, but how security seems to be following a similar maturity path as EMS. In this story and research-filled session he will pull the lessons he learned in decades of emergency response and show how to apply them to your security career and daily practice to improve your effectiveness and mental resiliency, and perhaps avoid your first clean kill.

By Rich Mogull

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