Introductions

Good morning from the great state of Tennessee! 🎶🎸

I'm Michael and work as the Sr Director of Security Operations at Veeva Systems. My wife, daughter, son and I live just 15 minutes north of Nashville. We're big into football, hockey, soccer, and track and field. Aligning with the standard Nashville music culture, my daughter is starting the cello!

My career has been a bit out of the ordinary. I graduated from the USAF Academy in 2011, and started off as an Air Force pilot. After about a year, I discerned that flying wasn't for me, and was reclassified into a cyber warfare officer. I spent 10.5 years in cyber warfare, ranging from protecting the F-35 JSF network, to running defensive cyber missions across 189 global USAF installations, and finishing my Air Force time in AFCYBER HQ as a joint strategic defensive cyber planner.

Now, I work at Veeva Systems, a software tech company for the life sciences where we specialize in CRM as well as products to manage clinical drug trial results. 

On the side, I'm also an educator at heart. I've taught anything from Krav Maga (I'm a blackbelt) for many years, to training AFROTC cadets to become officers, to teaching college-level courses, being an executive-level instructor in transformational leadership, and designing and enforcing curriculum for the Air Force Cyber Defense weapon system. Education is my passion so therefore my involvement in Immersive Labs is heavy! I'm very impressed with their model of teaching and excited to help in any way!

Also: Massive shout-out to our account team, Heather Ong and Jay Martinage. They have been incredible in helping us along the way!

Hi,everyone, I'm Mathias a Cybersecurity analyst in training. Glad to be here.

Hi there everyone! 

by way of introduction I’m James, 30 yo based Yorkshire UK.

Im currently in the process of applying for ComSci CybSec courses and have managed to get on training with Immersive Labs which, ngl, is making me feel a little bit out my depth! 

any handy tips or advice would be greatly appreciated! 

all the best :)

Hello everyone, it is lovely to be here.

I am very new to Cyber, being a part of Digital Governance. However, I am excited to learn more through Immersive so I can work in partnership with our Cyber team (& have a little more understanding myself for my own personal & professional development). 🤩

Hi everyone, excited to be here. 

I have worked in CS for about 5 years now, having completed a (late in life) apprenticeship through work. I work for a leading UK Financial Services provider and am looking forward to continuing to grow CS awareness across the UK.

I am a novice member of my organisation's CTF team and particularly love cryptography or Wireshark boxes.

Looking forward to getting to know everyone a little better.

Great to be part of this community! I am Nasser, Cyber Security Manager for 2 NHS Trusts in NW London. I have been using Immersive for a number of years but am now looking to expand usage across my organisations so everyone can benefit from on demand cyber learning. It is a fantastic platform! Look forward to sharing my thoughts and ideas!

Hi everyone! I'm a veteran now looking to turn my 'passion into a profession' and work towards some Cybersecurity qualifications. This looks like a great place to get a solid foundation! Ultimately wanting to end up in a risk consultancy role. 

Long life tinkerer, programming from computer magazines at about 7 or 8 with my family Amstrad 464. Back then I think actually got some cheats to work in games by writing code from a magazine (hours) and having to pause the cassette player at the right point (i think). Then the Amiga 500, heady days of workbench 1.3 and deluxe paint iii. From there towards Linux and the mysterious world of man and Bash. What a somehow archaic but at the same time still futuristic invention (imo). Spent time learning whilst studying molecular biology in my Uni days. 

Anyway.. joined Army, did a lot of green and bio-metric stuff abroad for 6 months, and continued to be into computers as a hobbie. Written a few personal projects in C (including Tetris and a Sudoku solver using backtracking algortihm) and like the close to metal stuff.

I'm living in France right now and for the NATO buffs amongst us on a former SHAPE barracks. History of Cyber in general fascinates me also. Hello everyone!

Hello. I am Eric and I am a software development consultant specializing in data engineering pursuing knowledge of cybersecurity through multiple outlets including the pursuit of a master's which is how I heard of this platform. I enjoy tinkering with hack projects and trying to get a good handle at industry trends.

Hello everyone! :) I'm Jude, a Cyber Security student currently studying for a degree apprenticeship in the defence sector. I'm just about to enter my fourth year, and Immersive has been incredibly helpful throughout. I'm hugely passionate about Cyber, and I'm always looking for opportunities in the industry :D

I got into Cyber Security when I was 14, and joined a national cyber security competition for 14-18 year olds called Cyber Discovery, run by CyberFirst, SANS Institute and the UK Government. Managed to reach the final stage three years in a row, where I took part in the face-to-face final, and later studying for and passing two GIAC qualifications when I was 17-18 years old (the GCFE and GCIH). Earlier this year I took part in the Cyber Team UK competition, reaching the final.

My areas of interests in Cyber Security are Threat Intelligence, Reverse Engineering, Malware Analysis and Digital Forensics. Actually, my dissertation was on developing a tool to detect embedded malware in images :D

In my spare time... oh man, I have FAR too many hobbies. I do a self-defence system called Krav Maga, I love to draw, and I'm also a Warhammer 40K lore fan, so I read a lot of that (get me started on Warhammer at your peril).

Once again, it's so lovely to meet all of you 😄

Hey everyone :-)

I've just joined the Community team as an Intern to help KieranRowley and Anonymous. I came from a really sociable industry (brewing) and I've come to realise that cyber is just as sociable and friendly. It's been great meeting people from different companies and backgrounds, all obsessed with their particular area of cyber.

Hopefully I'll bump into some of you at future events!