Cyber Coffee Talk with Dr. Heather Monthie

In this episode, I share with you some resources I've been reading through about cloud computing and education and I share some of my own experiences in how cloud computing has enhanced education. Resources discussed in this episode: The Future of Disruptive Technologies by Dr. Srikanth Gadda (affiliate link) González-Martínez, J. A., Bote-Lorenzo, M. L., Gómez-Sánchez, E., & Cano-Parra, R. (2015). Cloud computing and education: A state-of-the-art survey. Computers & Education, 80, 132-151. 30% of American adults don’t have a credit card. If you’ve been thinking about sharing your knowledge and educating others to have a higher impact in the world, you might be interested in my online course answering some of the top FAQs about online course creation. This is applicable if you’re teaching at a university, creating a course for your team at work, or you want to create a course to offer on your own website. I will be continuing this series on various disruptive and emerging technologies and it’s impact on society, the workforce, and education. I’ll also be sharing some very strategic and tactical ways you can use these technologies to help education others and share your own expertise to have a higher impact on the world! FULL TRANSCRIPT: 0:00Hello there, and welcome back to my podcast. My name is Heather Monthie. And in this podcast, we talk about all things related to education and leadership in the digital age. We talk about technology, education, innovation, all that kind of fun stuff. So, today's episode, what I wanted to do is talk a little bit about cloud computing in education. And I am reading a book about disruptive technologies. And I wanted to supplement some of my thoughts about the book, some of the things that are covered in the book, I wanted to supplement some of it with, you know, as you know, if you've listened to this podcast, I like to cover research articles and talk a little bit about some of the research articles that are out there. So I have a book that I'm reading, it's called The Future of disruptive technologies by doctors from Comp gada. And then I also found an article or research article, it's a literature review. And it is by Gonzalez Martinez at all published in 2015. In computers and education, it is called cloud computing and education, a state of the art survey. So it is from 2015. So it does have some, you know, it's seven years old at this point. But it has been cited 370 times, which is quite a lot. As you're, as you're talking about some of the different technologies in education, that's quite a lot. So I figured it was probably worth it to take a look at it. This book was published in 2020. I also wanted to put out this disclaimer that, you know, things can and do change over time. So there are going to be some things in the article, they'll eventually be some things in the book that are no longer relevant. And as we go forward into the future, maybe even this podcast episode, this video, wherever you are watching or listening to me today, could become out of date, or my thoughts and views might have changed. So I just want to put that disclaimer on here that this is a point in time. So I just wanted to share that things change, and so do opinions and thoughts and that kind of thing. So this book is called again, it's called The Future of disruptive technologies. And it breaks all these different tech disruptive technologies down by business workforce and society and some of the impacts that it has on those three particular areas. What workforce education can certainly be a part of workforce. But what I wanted to do is take the different technologies that are covered in this book. And hopefully at some point, we can get the author of the book on this podcast to talk a little bit more about it. But I want to do is take each technology that's covered in the book, and let's talk about how those technologies have changed, or are changing education,

Welcome to 2022! I am very excited to announce the re-brand of my podcast! We'll be talking more about leadership in the digital age, digital culture, and innovation. In this episode, I share with you a little about where my cybersecurity content is moving (I'll be able to share that more later) and how we're going to start talking more about how to be a high-impact leader in the digital age. Since innovation is no longer limited to the technology sector, this podcast is for anyone who is developing their leadership skills in today's environment. You might be working in tech and want to be a strong leader for your team, you might be an up and coming star in the business world, or you might be the CEO of your company and you know that technology has impacted the way in which we work, live, and play. Sign up to receive new episode updates and show notes! https://www.heathermonthie.com/leadershippodcast Enjoy! https://youtu.be/CDKpN09SOK4 Transcript: Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel podcast or wherever it is that you are listening to this right now. So I am Heather. And what I want to do today is share with you a little bit of news that I have, and then the future direction of this podcast and YouTube channel. So if you've been around a while, you know that the podcast has been around since 2018. And we have gone through a couple name changes, rebranding, that kind of thing, just as you know, the things I'm interested in change. And then I also look at the analytics to the podcast to see what kinds of things you guys who are listening, what kinds of things you guys are interested in. So that helps drives some of the direction of the podcast as well. And on the podcast, we've talked a lot, a lot, a lot of things about like, digital safety, online safety. You know, some of the research that's out there about how to teach cybersecurity how to teach coding to kids, all the kind of stuff is a really sort of a just like a hodgepodge of technology related stuff. And then the YouTube channel has been, you know, some of the podcast episodes made its way to the YouTube channel. But the YouTube channel has really been more of the tactical side of some of the things that I've been doing. It's sort of the How to videos, I've got a couple videos on there explaining how to use aeronautical charts for drone pilots, understanding airspace, that kind of thing. But then I've also got some coding tutorials with Scratch programming, which is something that MIT put out, it's, you know, they're they're really intended to be tutorials to help parents who are helping their kids do homework, or giving teachers ideas for things that they can do with kids in the classroom with regards to coding, we actually ended up happening is a lot of sometimes a lot of kids watching those videos. And then they messaged me looking for help with their homework. So But anyways, so personally, in my own, like personal professional life, I guess, I've had a couple things change over the last couple of months. And so some of the, the majority of the cybersecurity content that I do create will be put on to a different platform, which I will be able to announce that here shortly. We won't announce it in this episode. But I will be able to announce that here shortly where we're going to be moving some of the cybersecurity content over to a different platform, and I'll be sharing and growing a lot of different areas in cybersecurity doing some thought leadership, that kind of thing. So I wanted to share that with you guys that that that kind of stuff, you won't see too much of that here anymore there. But there will still be a lot of stuff very much related to that industry. Okay. So what I'm going to do now with the podcast and the YouTube channel, rather than having the to be to sort of separate entities, they're going to become sort of the same thing. It's just dependent on whether or not you want to listen to me up the app on the p...

Are cybersecurity and coding boot camps worth it? Let's discuss! I have nearly 20 years of experience in technology education leadership as a Dean, Vice President, and Professor. I've helped thousands of people start and advance their tech careers over the years. This is just my opinion based on my previous experiences. Nothing guarantees an interview or a job! https://learn.heathermonthie.com The article I referenced: Caliskan, E., & Vaarandi, R. (2020). Career development in cyber security: Bootcamp training programs. In International Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (pp. 503-XVII). Academic Conferences International Limited. https://search.proquest.com/openview/a97ccef9164163f137c669041dfffec9/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=396500&casa_token=6FQmzXFO2VoAAAAA:gTCkSHd5fB2k1cP8pO-5SBRgGJBw7lDOb3dFlluH35CzLROpm3-sDZNg-gW4s74kwDHrBZZx-A https://www.youtube.com/embed/zvrBcmJk5DM TRANSCRIPT: Hello there, and welcome back to my YouTube channel, podcast, website blog, wherever it is that you're watching this video, I am Dr. Heather Monthie. And in this episode or video, whatever it is that you are, I want to talk about cybersecurity boot camps, coding boot camps, it boot camps, and whether or not they're effective. And one of the things that I see a lot posted online, and I get a lot of questions by individual people, is whether or not coding boot camps, cybersecurity boot camps, etc, are worth the money. And then a lot of other questions that I see are, what is the difference between XYZ University and ABC University's cybersecurity boot camp? And which one should I choose? Which one's better? So, you know, let's talk about this a little bit here. So, it my answer for everything is always it just it depends. It really depends on what your goals are, it really depends on what it is that you want to do long term for your career. And it really depends on what kind of education experience training etc you already have. You can be successful, you can be wildly successful attending a boot camp, you can be wildly successful getting a bachelor's degree, you can be wildly successful getting a master's degree, it really a lot of it depends on the kind of work and effort that you put in to Intuit right? So, um, a couple things. So cybersecurity boot camps. Yes, absolutely. They're great. So with cybersecurity and it boot camps, one thing you'll see is that there's boot camps out there to help prepare you for a certification. And then there's boot camps out there that will help prepare you probably more to have a foundational understanding, have a high level overview, be able to apply this more in, in industry more of a practitioner based approach, okay. And then some of them are gonna be much more hands on. Now, the difference comes in this, you have the certification training, and then you have sort of career training, I guess I would call it and preparing to take a certification test is very different from preparing to start a new career. Okay. Now oftentimes, when you're trying to break into it cybersecurity, coding, tech, anything, you'll see a lot of job ads wanting certain certifications, you see it more on computer, cybersecurity, and it versus the software development computer science side, you certainly do see some of it there. But mostly, you see a lot on the cybersecurity information security, it site. And when you're going to get these go through these boot camps, they're teaching you the skills to pass a test, that's very different from taking a class to be able to apply it in your workplace. Okay. And so when you are looking at boot camps, you have to understand what the outcome is of that particular boot camp. So what is it that you will learn to do? What is the transformation that you will get during that boot camp? So when you're going and you're talking to, you know, enrollment counselors, you're talking to different companies, and you are unsure of, you know,

“How do I leave a career in healthcare to go into cybersecurity? I love what I do, but am definitely ready for a change. What kind of experience do I need to get? I already have a master’s degree so I don’t really want to go back to school for another degree.” Remember: "The resume gets you the interview; the interview gets you the job." - Heather Monthie, PhD https://www.youtube.com/embed/aDTAD9RdFhE TRANSCRIPT: Hello, and welcome back to my podcast, my YouTube channel, my Instagram page, LinkedIn Facebook page, wherever it is that you are watching this video. So I am Dr. Heather Monthie. And in today's episode, what I'm going to do is answer a frequently asked question about transitioning from a career in healthcare to a career in cybersecurity.  So I am I've been asked this question frequently, but I just saw recently posted online, somebody was asking a question about transitioning careers from healthcare to cybersecurity and some steps that he could take two to make that transition happen. So let's talk about it. So here's the question, How do I leave a career in healthcare and go into cybersecurity? I love what I do. But I'm definitely ready for a change. What kind of experience Do I need to get? I already have a master's degree. So I don't really want to go back to school for another degree. What can I do? So there's a lot of different things going on here with regards to if I were to help you in this situation, okay.  So somebody who already has a bachelor's degree or a master's degree, you know, there are a couple of different reasons why he or she might not necessarily want to go back to school to get another degree in cybersecurity. So say you have, you know, a degree and a bachelor's degree in nursing, for example, you've got you to know, you got an RN BSN. And you want to transition into cybersecurity, there are programs out there that you can get a graduate program in cybersecurity, where you don't necessarily have to have an undergraduate degree related to that particular field.  But when you already have a master's degree in cybersecurity, well, then what right? So there's a couple of different options that you have here, you could go back to school and get another degree, might not necessarily be the best choice for a couple of different reasons. Number one, time, number two, you've got responsibilities, you want it, you want to be working, you don't want to quit your job and go to school full time. And number three, you know, oftentimes, if you're using financial aid, this is not financial advice.  But if you're sometimes if you're using financial aid, you won't necessarily be covered, if you've already got a degree. So it'll usually only financial aid usually only kicks in to cover the next degree that the next degree up, right. So again, not financial advice, but just something to take into consideration here. So what you need something to get your foot in the door, you need to have something to get your foot in the door, right. So like, there's got to be some sort of technical experience, some sort of cybersecurity-related experience, it doesn't necessarily need to be technical, because there's so much to cybersecurity, that's nontechnical, there's law, there's, there's, you know, compliance, there are policies, all that kind of stuff that isn't necessarily super technical, right.  So you do have to have something to get your get your foot in the door. So what I would suggest doing is going to your own internal IT department or Information Security Department, especially if you work in a hospital or a larger healthcare system, there is a information security team, there is an IT team. And so what you can do is you can see if there's any open opportunities, open entry level opportunities there that you might be qualified for, as is, okay. So they might not necessarily, you know, need, you know, a degree in it or, you know, a degree in computer science, something like that.

How to teach technical skills online Download the Technology Toolkit for Online Educators, Coaches, Consultants, and Experts working to create an online education-based business here:https://bit.ly/TechToolkitforEDU Join the Edupreneurs Online community to discuss your online teaching career/businesshttps://bit.ly/EdupreneursOnline You may be interested in my course answering your most frequently asked questions about developing your own online course. Try Thinkific here:https://try.thinkific.com/heathermonthie3702 Try ConvertKit here:https://convertkit.com?lmref=qujVXw https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gq_Zx7E9x1U How to teach technical skills online.  So in this video, I'm going to share with you a couple of different ways that you can teach technical skills online. I think a lot of times people think that when they are learning hands on skills, or they are teaching hands on skills, it can be very difficult to do online.  And it while it is a little bit different than teaching some of these skills in person, many of these skills can absolutely be taught online, you just got to use a, you know, some of the technology that's available out there. And so what I wanted to do is just go over what some of the pieces of technology you can use to teach technical skills online.  Now, this is not going to be for any sort of technical hands on training that needs to happen on a very expensive piece of equipment, for example. So if you have a piece of equipment that costs $10,000, and you want to give your students hands on training on said piece of equipment, and you may be able to give sort of informational online sessions to show students how to use the piece of equipment.  But if you want to teach that sort of, you know, the hands on you having students have that opportunity to, to practice the technical skills, it's not necessarily going to work for you know, some of these things that do require some very expensive pieces of equipment, this is really going to be related to it skills, technology skills, coding skills, teaching social media, anything that really is done either online, or it can be done using either free or affordable software.  So the first thing that, you know, when people are thinking about teaching online, they start thinking about Well, where is it that I'm going to put my course? Where is it that I'm going to put all of my information that I have prepared for my students? And your answer is going to be? It depends? The answer is always it depends. For every question that you guys ask. It's always It depends, right? But so what you can do is you can use online marketplaces, I've spoken about these before, you can use online marketplaces, where you know, people just put all of their courses, they've got a lot of information, a lot of different types of courses out there. Udemy is probably one of the more popular ones within the it in the technical world. And, you know, the thing is, with Udemy, couple different things, there's a lot of stuff out there, some is good, some not so good. But you as an instructor, if you put a course out on Udemy, you don't necessarily you don't get contact information of all all of your students. So you want to use Udemy strategically, you want to use it as a way that you can help bring draw students into you and your ecosystem and all the different other offerings that you have. And so you can use online marketplaces, they're absolutely a wonderful place to start out. They've got everything is hosted for you, you create an account, you log in, you upload your videos, you upload your course content, and bam, you have an online course. Alright.  The other option that you have is to build your own learning management system, which you know, you can use, there's some open source ones that you can install, and build and configure and all that on your own website and your own web server. I've done that. And it does require a lot of maintenance,

Stop spending all your time making PowerPoints! What you need to know as an IT educator instead. Download the Technology Toolkit for Online Educators, Coaches, Consultants, and Experts working to create an online education-based business here:https://bit.ly/TechToolkitforEDU Join the Edupreneurs Online community to discuss your online teaching career/businesshttps://bit.ly/EdupreneursOnline You may be interested in my course answering your most frequently asked questions about developing your own online course. “PowerPoint as an innovative tool for teaching and learning in modern classes” https://www.youtube.com/embed/s9d6xQKf_jM TRANSCRIPT: Stop spending so much time making PowerPoints.  If I had to give one piece of advice to brand new, IT, information security, software development, technical instructors, that would be it, just stop spending so much time making PowerPoints.  So in this video, what I wanted to do is share with you a couple of my tips about how to effectively use PowerPoint as a teaching tool in technical courses and hands on related courses. And so the thing that I see, and I've seen in the past over the last almost 20 years, is that when people are brand new to teaching, people are, you know, very passionate about their topic.  They want to know, they want to make sure that they can answer every single question that their students ask them is that they start to over prepare, and spend so much time on the content and making sure you know, every little thing, every little, every little piece about the content. And as a result, all that information gets put into PowerPoint. And so you're creating these very elaborate PowerPoints, maybe you're giving a 30 minute lecture or a 45 minute lecture, maybe even a 20 minute lecture.  And you're spending all this time putting together a PowerPoint. And when you should be using that time for other things, and be spending all this time over preparing is the first step to burnout. And that is not something that you want to have happen, especially in your first year of teaching. If you're teaching online, you're teaching for a training company, you're teaching for yourself. Teaching for a college or university doesn't matter. That is the first step to burnout. And we don't want you to burn out.  We need people like you who are willing to take your time and your expertise and help develop the next generation of technology professionals. So how should you use PowerPoint? I'm not saying you shouldn't use PowerPoint, I know that there's some things out there, Steve Jobs infamously said that, that, you know, if you have to use PowerPoint, you don't know you don't know what you're talking about. Right.  And I do believe that there's a time and a place for a PowerPoint presentation, I'll give you an example. I was giving a presentation to a group of high school teachers about how to teach computer science. And we had plan and plan to plan and put together this whole thing. And, you know, I had like three slides I was supposed to talk to. And I got up and I just started talking, I didn't pay any attention to my slides. Because I knew what it was that I was talking about. I knew in my head exactly what I wanted to get across all the points, I wanted to make all the stories I wanted to tell I've given this presentation many, many, many times that I wasn't reliant on the PowerPoint to keep me on track.  But it's your first time giving a lecture on something your webinar and something PowerPoints are a great way to keep you on track to make sure that you cover all the talking points that you want to hit, that you share the stories that you want to share, you spend a lot of time preparing for this, you're not just going to go to a class session and just start talking off the top of your head. But you can use PowerPoint to help sort of keep you on track. But what you don't want to do is have this novel across the screen on your PowerPoint p...

How to create a course syllabus - Cybersecurity Awareness Program I share my screen in this episode, so you may want to check out the video version of this podcast at  https://www.heathermonthie.com/how-to-create-a-course-syllabus-cybersecurity-awareness-program/ You may be interested in my course answering your most frequently asked questions about developing your own online course. Download the Technology Toolkit for Online Educators, Coaches, Consultants, and Experts working to create an online education-based business here:https://bit.ly/TechToolkitforEDU Join the Edupreneurs Online community to discuss your online teaching career/businesshttps://bit.ly/EdupreneursOnline https://www.youtube.com/embed/7boyMtTbLcQ How to create a course syllabus.  So in this video, I'm going to show you how to create the course syllabus for a technical course, we're going to use a Cybersecurity Awareness course as an example. So if you are working in it, you worked in information security, you might be have been responsible for putting together a Cybersecurity Awareness Program for your company. And so you might have some experience putting together a course syllabus.  So let's take what you already know, and maybe what you don't know. And let's talk about what it takes to put together a course syllabus for somewhat of a technical type of topic. So I'm going to share my screen with you here. And so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to think about the end in mind. So we're gonna have the end in mind. So what is it that we want our students, it might be employees, it might be whoever is purchasing your course. You know, what is it that we want them to do?  So if we're going to create a Cybersecurity Awareness Program, we're just going to create one course for program in a in a Cybersecurity Awareness Program, you might have multiple courses. So but in this video, I'm just going to, we're just going to take one as an example. And we're going to create a course about fishing.  Okay, so what we want to do is we want to think about what is the end in mind? What is it that we want our learners to either know, do or feel when they are finished with our course. Alright, so rather than give, you know, write a course about absolutely everything there ever could possibly need to know about fishing, it's really, you know, what is it that we want to learn to know how to do? So first of all, let's identify who our learners are to begin with.  This is very important, because when you're talking about a topic like phishing, phishing is going to be very different for Cybersecurity Awareness training for you know, a receptionist somebody who works at accounting, you know, somebody like that, or somebody who is working in cybersecurity, and you're, they're trying, you're, you're showing them and you're, you're teaching them how to do investigative tasks that go with when when phishing emails come in, right? So it's, it's going to look very different.  So you want to identify who your students are. So who are your students? So in this example, here, we're going to say it's employees of Acme Acme company, right? And we're going to say this is about a 500. person company, right? So those are my students. So I'm going to really just give them an overview of what is an awareness of phishing, right? So when they are finished with my course, what is it that I want them to? What is the transformation I want them to have had? So you can look at? What are they? What do you want them to know? What do you want them to do? Or what do you want them to feel or some combination of those three.  So what I'm going to do here is say I want them to know how to identify a possible phishing email. And I want them to be able to this is the do be able to report a phishing email to the infosec. department. I can't type today when people are watching me, right. So we're going to use up the two things that I want them to do,

Download the Technology Toolkit for Online Educators, Coaches, Consultants, and Experts working to create an online education-based business here: https://bit.ly/TechToolkitforEDU Join the Edupreneurs Online community to discuss your online teaching career/business https://bit.ly/EdupreneursOnline Schedule some time with Heather to review your resume for teaching IT/InfoSec/Software Development  online teaching https://www.heathermonthie.com/work-with-me/ https://www.youtube.com/embed/W5JnetjPmcg What I wish I knew before I got my first adjunct teaching position as an IT instructor. So in this video, what I wanted to do is just share with you. One of the major things that I really wish I knew and understood before I took my first position as an adjunct instructor. I think that teaching at colleges, universities, community colleges is a wonderful way to break into teaching. And I am very thankful to have had the opportunity that somebody gave me that opportunity. And as I move forward in my career in higher education, was able to give so many people their first chance at teaching at the university level, college level, vocational school level, etc. And so what I wanted to do, though, is just share with you to sort of reflect back a little bit on my own career and share with you what I just kind of wish I knew. And there's one big day, there's a lot of things that I wish that I knew. But there's  I guess one big thing. So I guess first let's go back a little bit.  So I always knew I was going to be a teacher, I've always enjoyed teaching, I love working with people and helping them achieve their goals. I first my first teaching gig was in 2000, I actually became a certified flight instructor, and you taught adults how to fly. I also taught Junior Junior Achievement, and I taught you know, second graders about, you know, finance, economics, that kind of stuff. And that was those are really sort of my first gigs in teaching. actually think flight instructing came a little bit later in 2002. And then I also started teaching online in 2013, I started working with educators, for teachers who were bringing technology into the classroom.  And so, you know, obviously using technology to teach online, that was a fantastic thing to be able to do and bring all these things together. And then I started my PhD in 2010. And I completed that in 2014, with a goal that I wanted to keep progressing in my career in education, what I really wanted to do was I really wanted to start my own school, I wanted to start a school that would help people advance their technology careers earn a very good income, and to be able to change their lives. And you know, I've always been very passionate about helping people really just change their financial situation. And oftentimes, you know, having a larger income or higher income really does help level up their financial situation. There's other things that obviously go into people's finances. But that is just one way that I, I know that I can help people. And so I actually had tried starting my own school back in like, 2006 2007 timeframe. [convertkit form=2515377]   And I realized how much work that goes into starting a school. And I really realized that I could at that time with my skill set and the things that that I knew how to do, I could have a bigger impact by working within the school systems. So working within existing schools, I, you know, started working with schools that were struggling, that were struggling financially, that were struggling with outcomes, that kind of thing. And so I was able to, you know, just have have a bigger impact by working in existing schools. But what I really, really, really wish that I knew prior to going into teaching was I wish I had a little bit more business acumen. And I haven't now and, you know, I've, I've learned a lot over the last, you know, 15 or so years, but I, you know, I really wish that I had sort of this,

Schedule some time with Heather to review your resume for teaching IT/InfoSec/Software Development online teaching https://www.heathermonthie.com/work-with-me/ Cybersecurity domain map https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cybersecurity-domain-map-ver-30-henry-jiang/www.Cyberseek.orgNIST Cybersecurity Workforce Framework https://niccs.cisa.gov/workforce-development/cyber-security-workforce-framework https://www.youtube.com/embed/XQnx2CPHXq0 Think about your cybersecurity career roadmap.  So in this video, I'm going to share with you a couple of different resources that you can use to help plan out your cybersecurity career or help plan out the cybersecurity career of your students. So this works very well for entry level people that are coming in to cybersecurity is as as an entry level employee.  But this also works very well for people that they're working towards, you know, upper management, senior management, the executive level as well. So these are some great resources that you can use for yourself and for your students to help them plan out their cybersecurity careers. So I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen with you right now. And right here is the first resource that I want to share with you, it is called let's see that the map, let's see and move myself out of the way.  So map of cyber security domains by Henry Yang, and he released this, this is where I'm rev three, that one. This is like think the third version, obviously, it's third version of it, and he keeps us updated. It's really great. It's a way to show all the different cybersecurity domains. So when you're talking about cybersecurity careers, it's not necessarily just I'm going to go into cybersecurity. There's one pathway to it, right?  There's there's one certification, there's one degree you need. It's It's It's not a linear pathway. And I liken it to the medical profession where the healthcare profession where people don't necessarily say I'm going to go into healthcare, well, what aspect of healthcare you're going to go into? Are you going to go into billing and coding? Are you going to go into insurance? Are you going to be a medical assistant? Excuse me a medical assistant? Are you going to be an RN and nurse practitioner? Are you going to be a surgeon? You know, a general practitioner, what is it that you're going to do? Right? So cybersecurity has quickly become the same way. There's a lot of different opportunities here in cybersecurity. And this cybersecurity domain map really shows a good solid, you know, all the different domains within cybersecurity. So you can start here, you can just you find sort of the one in the center, I guess, and it kind of branches off from there.  So you've got security operations, career development, and user education, threat, intelligence, governance risk, you frameworks and standards that would might be compliance, application security, security architecture. So what I would suggest doing is find an area so if you already work within cybersecurity, and or your students already work within cyber security, and they want to advance their career, then you can come and look up, what is it that you already know how to do? What is it that your students already know how to do? And you can sort of branch out and go, Okay, well, maybe I need to get some skills in this area, or that area. The other thing, right, so maybe if you are, you know, you're you're really involved in security architecture, and maybe you're really more involved on the data protection, data, data leakage, prevention, that kind of thing.  But now you kind of want to maybe, maybe do a shift, or maybe you want to gain some more skills, because you want to get into you know, more of a technical leadership role or something that you might look at cloud security, you might look at identity and access management as a as a possible career paths to get some additional training. So this is a really great tool,

Read the blog post here: https://www.heathermonthie.com/how-to-use-linkedin-to-find-online-it-teaching-positions/ Download the Technology Toolkit for Online Educators, Coaches, Consultants, and Experts working to create an online education-based business here:https://bit.ly/TechToolkitforEDU Join the Edupreneurs Online community to discuss your online teaching career/businesshttps://bit.ly/EdupreneursOnline Schedule some time with Heather to review your LinkedIn profile for teaching IT/InfoSec/Software Development online teaching https://www.heathermonthie.com/work-with-me/ How to use LinkedIn to find online IT teaching jobs.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/XawkF_SU568 So in this video, I'm going to share with you some of my tips as a former higher education administrator working in both colleges, universities, vocational schools, community colleges, etc. and how you can use LinkedIn to find different online teaching positions specific to it and the technology professions. So I wrote a blog post last week that really shared some of my tips for you.  And in this video, I'm going to give you an extra special tip that's not included in the blog post. But I want to make sure to include it because I think it's something that's important. So listen all the way to the end to hear that final tip, it's not included in a blog post.  So the first is to really create a comprehensive LinkedIn profile that complements your resume and highlights all of your existing training and education experience. So in your profile, you want to make sure that you are including any types of training that you have done in the past, whether they are part of your paid positions, or they might be part of volunteer positions as well. So that when you're trying to break into teaching, either online or face to face, having some sort of training experience, really is really helpful.  Whether or not it's paid, it doesn't necessarily matter whether or not it's paid. But it does help to show that you're interested in this kind of work that you have some experience doing this kind of stuff that you have experience working with people who are trying to achieve a particular goal. So some things that you might want to consider highlighting with regards to your training experience that you may already have is that if you are you know currently working in it, or you worked at it in the past, and you've done, you've been part of a phase of a software rollout, and part of that software rollout plan, it usually comes a training plan that goes with that. So highlight any pieces of the training plan that you had a part of.  So whether you put you planned out the training sessions, you determine who needed to be in them, you determine what the outcomes of those training sessions needed to be, you determined, you know if there were different types of training sessions that needed to be done based on work roles, things like that. It's not necessarily always just delivering the training session, there's a lot of planning that goes into coming up with the right training as a training plan for the right people in your place, or your place of work.  So make sure you highlight that if you maybe you delivered a workshop for seniors, senior citizens, on how to use the internet, how to use Facebook, how to use email, how to stay safe online, how to, you know, properly do your internet banking, that kind of thing. So you put together any sort of, you know, a workshop for your community, senior citizens, maybe you know, through your Hoa, something like that, make sure you highlight that. And again, it's not just the actual delivery of the training session, it also includes all the planning that goes into putting together that training session.  And then also think about our few are the go-to person in your family for any tech-related questions. So the fact that people are coming to you and asking questions, shows that you are approachable,

So let's talk about the great resignation in tech. Download the Technology Toolkit for Online Educators, Coaches, Consultants, and Experts working to create an online education-based business here:https://bit.ly/TechToolkitforEDU Join the Edupreneurs Online community to discuss your online teaching career/businesshttps://bit.ly/EdupreneursOnline https://www.youtube.com/embed/8j39RtE1AmA this morning, I watched a video that was put on YouTube by CNBC. And it was, it was it was titled, why Millennials are leaving six figure tech jobs. And it was a pretty well done video explaining sort of, you know, this great resignation, and that there are 40% of people this year in 2021, are considering leaving their positions for something else. And this seems to be big news to people. And as somebody who has been a hiring manager in education for a long time, I would argue that this has been going on for a very long time. And I think it's just been brought to the forefront now people are actually paying attention to this. And it's not just millennials, it's Gen X and baby boomers two, that have been looking for a little bit more meaning in their lives. And I really just honestly think that the pandemic has really brought this to the forefront. Alright. And here's the reason why. So over the last, you know, 1516 years, I've done a lot of hiring, and I've done a lot of hiring of technology professionals. And they're people who are, you know, in the, in many of the positions in which I'm hiring for, is I'm hiring people to become technology instructors, and whether they're in it, software development, even things like some of the trades, you know, some of the some of the very technical highly technical professions. A nd so when I'm when I'm working with somebody, when I'm interviewing somebody who they have no teaching experience, no teaching background, they did not, they're not teaching at like a community college. They haven't taught any, like online classes as an adjunct instructor or anything like that. They're really looking for that first break into teaching. And I'll ask them, I'll say, Well, what is it that has piqued your interest about teaching? Why is it that you want to teach and the the overwhelming response that I get now you have to remember that people are, you know, they're in a job interview, they're hoping that I'm going to give them a job. But you know, so the, they'll frame it in this way that they'll say things like that they want to give back, and that they want to help form the next generation of technology professionals. [convertkit form=2515377] But then when you start getting in to the, you know, the meat of what they're really saying, and in conversations, some of the other things, some of the other reasons come out, and oftentimes, it's that they're looking for a more stable schedule, they've got a family at home, they've got kids, they've got grandkids, they want to be around, they are completely over being on call, and, you know, being being at their employer's beck and call 20 473 65. Just because, you know, technology is, technology is running, you know, every day, all day, Christmas Day, New Year's Day, your kid's birthday, like it's running all the time, right. And so, um, you know, they're, they're, they're really more interested in having a more of a work life balance. Another thing that I saw a lot were consultants who were traveling, every you know, they get on an airplane, every Sunday night, they'd work on site, you know, Monday through Thursday, and then Thursday night or Friday morning, they're back on an airplane to come back home. And while the pay is very well, it pays very well and they love it. But after a certain amount of time in your life changes. Again, you've got kids, you've got grandkids, things like that, things start to change. So they start looking for other opportunities that they can use their technology skills,

Download the Technology Toolkit for Online Educators, Coaches, Consultants, and Experts working to create an online education-based business here: https://bit.ly/TechToolkitforEDU Join the Edupreneurs Online community to discuss your online teaching career/business: https://bit.ly/EdupreneursOnline You may be interested in my course answering your most frequently asked questions about developing your own online course. Try Thinkific here! (Affiliate link) https://www.youtube.com/embed/uTBgCP4mjJw TRANSCRIPT: How to teach it online without a degree. So say you are interested in giving back and helping to develop the next generation of IT professionals, technology professionals, and you want to teach but you don't have a degree or you don't have a degree in it, or computer science or something like that. So most of the time, when a University College community college is looking for somebody to teach a particular course, oftentimes they're looking for somebody with a relevant degree. Generally, it'll be a graduate level degree, especially if you're teaching in a undergraduate bachelor's degree program. And I did a previous video on you know, how you can, you know, set yourself up for getting online teaching positions, you know, you've got the degree, you've got the credentials, etc. But what happens when you don't have those credentials, what happens when, you know, maybe you are a very skilled individual, you're skilled network engineer, but you don't have a college degree. Or maybe you are currently working in cybersecurity, and you've got an English degree. Alright. So there are some things that you can do. So first of all, some universities and colleges, community colleges, they can qualify you to teach a course based on your work experience. So if you think about how, you know there are certain maybe music musicians, famous musicians, famous artists, etc, that are able to teach at a university, and they may not necessarily have a degree, well, they're, they're being qualified based on their work experience. So there are some ways that you can still teach at a community college, or a university, that kind of thing. But you can teach, you might want to look into teaching for IT Training companies, they fall outside of some of the accreditation requirements that you know, that institutes of higher education fall under. So if you look for your corporate training organizations, it training organizations, people that go out and do certification trainings, people that go out to do your trainings at at companies on site training, and even online training as well. So you can look for sort of that corporate training model that is looking to you where they were a company will come and hire you to teach their staff. So the other option that I really highly recommend is to build your own courses. So just because you don't have the right credentials, to be able to teach in some other areas, or maybe you do have the right credentials to teach in some other areas, I firmly believe that you should develop your own courses, create a, you know, create a business around this, and I've spoken about this in previous videos is that to treat online teaching to treat your online teaching endeavor as a career, and there's going to be a lot of different ways that you're going to earn revenue in this in this business, or I said, treat his crew treated as your business, right. But there's going to be a lot of different ways that you're going to generate revenue out of this. [convertkit form=2515377] And so one of the ways you're going to do that is to build your own courses and sell them yourself. And you can do that in a couple of different ways. There are online learning marketplaces where people can go, they can develop their courses, and they can, you know, sell them there. So a site like Udemy is a really good example of that. A lot of times that certain topics are oversaturated. And,

Advice from a former University Dean and Higher Education Vice President on How to put Together a Resume or CV for Your First Online Teaching Job in IT or Cybersecurity Download the Technology Toolkit for Online Educators, Coaches, Consultants, and Experts working to create an online education-based business here: https://bit.ly/TechToolkitforEDU Join the Edupreneurs Online community to discuss your online teaching career/business: https://bit.ly/EdupreneursOnline Schedule some time with Heather to review your resume for teaching IT/InfoSec/Software Development  online teaching https://www.heathermonthie.com/work-with-me/ How to create your resume for your first online teaching position teaching it information security or any other technology related courses.  https://www.youtube.com/embed/pxTdqA5NPF4 So in this video, I'm going to share with you some steps that you can take to put together a effective resume or CV for your first online teaching position.  The first thing I always tell people to do is to really hone in on what it is that you're going to teach, what is it that you are a specialist at? What is it that you could walk into a class today, and teach the class without a whole lot of prep time? The reason I say that is because oftentimes, especially when you're brand new to teaching, you know, you look back at your own career and say, well, I've done this, I've done this, I've done this, you've done a lot of things, you've had a long and lengthy career. And now you're ready to give back and start helping to develop the next generation of IT professionals and infosec professionals, right.  But in order for you to be able to teach some of those things, you're probably going to need a lot of prep time just because maybe it's been five years, maybe it's been 10 years since you've done some of these things. And so you got to kind of get it back into the forefront of your mind, right. So if you sit down and think about what are the things that I could sit down and I could teach a class on right now today, without a whole lot of prep time, just kind of read over the materials, look at the syllabus to see what we're teaching and in what order that kind of thing that really focus their focus there so that you don't burn yourself out.  If you if you start teaching a course that you have to do a lot of prep time for for your first couple, you know, your first time teaching or your first couple of courses that you've taught, it's gonna burn you out. And that's the last thing we want to have happen is heavy, heavy burnout on teaching. So think about what it is that you are going to specialize in that you can really just walk into a class today and teach that particular class, okay. So make sure you highlight that on your resume.  Your credentials really, really do matter when you are when you're trying to get into an institute of education that has accreditation requirements around it. So we're talking community colleges, vocational schools, universities, colleges, etc. So if there's any sort of accreditation around the program, there's going to be some credentialing requirements that the people who are teaching need to have.  So for example, if you're teaching in a vocational program, and the are you're teaching a certification, so if you're teaching the security plus certification, you should probably have the security plus certification yourself. If you are teaching at a community college level, generally, you need a bachelor's degree in the field in which you want to teach. And then if you want to teach at the university level at the undergraduate level, you need to generally need a master's degree in the field in which you want to teach.  Now what happens if you don't have a degree in the field on what you want to teach. There's a lot of people working in the technology profession, that you know, they've got degrees in history got degrees in English got degrees in business,

Download the Technology Toolkit for Online Educators, Coaches, Consultants, and Experts working to create an online education-based business here:https://bit.ly/TechToolkitforEDU Join the Edupreneurs Online community to discuss your online teaching career/businesshttps://bit.ly/EdupreneursOnline [convertkit form=2515377] https://www.youtube.com/embed/54gLVzTF8SA TRANSCRIPT: The best investment that I ever made, as I was progressing in my career as an IT, tech, technology, educator, administrator, etc, the best investment that I ever made was listening to, and reading business based podcasts, books, audio books, all that kind of anything related to business. And so it's always a difficult conversation when you start talking about education and business in the same context. Because, you know, people don't necessarily want to think about education as a business. But for me, it was really learning how to run my career, like it was a business, and really learning how to promote and market myself how to package up my skills in a way that was necessary for employers, as I've done some consulting work with, with educational institutions, and companies that maybe they run a training program, really just showcasing, you know, my skills and my abilities in a way that really makes sense for them. And so when I listened to all these different books, audio, I had, I had a pretty long commute for a little while and listened to a lot of different audio books, podcasts and and then purchase books went to the library had it I have an Amazon Kindle, or Kindle unlimited subscription, really just short of shifting that mindset from one of I am looking for opportunities to teach and to become an educator, really shifting to one of I'm going to create those opportunities and create those opportunities for myself and create them for other people as well. And that was a huge shift for me. And I really think it helps helped my career and helped me build out myself as a technology educator. I remember one time I was at a networking event at you know, and it was for cybersecurity professionals. And I was talking to a group of people and somebody had asked me what, you know, what kind of degrees Do you have to get to be able to, you know, teach and to work in administration, that kind of thing. And I said, Well, I have a, I have a bachelor's degree in computer science, I have a master's degree in education, and I have a PhD in information technology, and I was able to merge all those three things together to create, you know, some of the opportunities that I've been, been afforded the wonderful opportunity to do some of these things. And so the guy commented, he's like, he's like, I just never really thought of that as like a career path. And I said, well, somebody's got to teach people how to do the things that you need to do out in industry. So, you know, it was really just like a way of just learning how to market myself and package up the skills that I have to be able to share them with whoever might need them. So I again, I really just, you know, treat my career like I'm running a business, as opposed to being assigned particular tasks from, from from an from an educational institution. So and as you are progressing, and you are becoming an IT, an online, it instructor, you're either working for a university or working for a college, or you're building some of these courses out on your own, you want to you want to approach things that way, as a hiring manager, I could tell the difference between the people who were like, they're taking charge of this, they really enjoy doing this, this is something that they're taking charge of. So treat your career like you're running a business. I quickly figured out, like I said, if there's if there's not the opportunity that I wanted, I went and created it. And one of my first adventures in online education was running a training program for teachers and how to manage their ...

Download the Technology Toolkit for Online Educators, Coaches, Consultants, and Experts working to create an online education-based business here:https://bit.ly/TechToolkitforEDU Join the Edupreneurs Online community to discuss your online teaching career/businesshttps://bit.ly/EdupreneursOnline You may be interested in my course answering your most frequently asked questions about developing your own online course. Inside Higher Ed: https://careers.insidehighered.com/Higher Ed Jobs: https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/The Chronicle of Higher Ed https://jobs.chronicle.com/ What are some opportunities to teach online for IT professionals? - Becoming an IT / InfoSec / Technology Educator https://www.youtube.com/embed/VDcx6VZzWmE [convertkit form=2515377] TRANSCRIPT: Hello there, and welcome back to the cyber coffee talk podcast. I'm Heather Monthie, your host for this podcast. So today's episode is the second part of the series that I am doing on how to become an information security it technology educator. I spent many years in education answered a lot of questions over the years. So here I am answering them for you here on the podcast, my YouTube channel, my blog, etc. So in today's episode, we're going to talk a little bit about what are the online teaching opportunities for it and information security professionals enjoy. So what are some opportunities for it and information security professionals to teach online. So in this video, I'm going to share with you a couple of different ways that if you're interested in learning how you can become an online it instructor or professor, I'm gonna give you a couple different ways that you can start taking some steps today. So the first thing I always think that you should do, if you are interested in becoming an online instructor is really sit down and think about what it is that you really know how to do, and you know how to do well. So you have to remember that if you're going to go teach in an undergraduate program, you're going to go teach in a vocational program, you're teaching students who have never done some of these things before. So you need to know how to do it well and be able to answer a lot of different types of questions. Sometimes as you progress up in your career, you start to forget some of those things that you used to have to do when you were you know, sort of a newbie in your profession. So if you are a software developer, and you're leading your technical teams, and you're you're you're, you're doing a lot of project management, that kind of stuff, it might have been a while since you've done some very basic programming concepts. So you want to sit down and really think about what it is that you can teach. And you can teach it really well right now if you could sit down and talk about it for an hour to two hours just off the top of your head. And the reason I say this is because oftentimes when people are new to teaching it, people are new to teaching, you know, data science professionals, etc, are new to teaching, you're very smart, you're very intelligent person and you want to come across as being smart, intelligent, you want to be able to answer all your students questions. And so what ends up happening is, as I see people over preparing, they spend way too much time prepping for the course, for a one hour lecture or 45 minute lecture, they might spend five or six hours preparing for it for you know, an hour and a half class period, they're spending you upwards of 10 hours preparing for it. And you shouldn't have to do that, especially if it's your first time teaching, it will burn you out. So you want to make sure that you really just sit down think about what is it that I know that I can teach walking in day one, no problems, not a lot of prep time is going to be necessary. So think about that first, and then just be very clear, it is what the what you want to teach, you know,

Download the Technology Toolkit for Online Educators, Coaches, Consultants, and Experts working to create an online education-based business here:https://bit.ly/TechToolkitforEDU Join the Edupreneurs Online community to discuss your online teaching career/businesshttps://bit.ly/EdupreneursOnline You may be interested in my course answering your most frequently asked questions about developing your own online course. https://www.youtube.com/embed/HDjJZkRwsus TRANSCRIPT: Hello there, and welcome back to the cyber coffee talk Podcast. I am Heather Monthie, your host for this podcast, I am going to do something a little bit different this month with the podcast, I hope you enjoy it. What I'm going to do is I'm doing some short videos, live videos on Facebook and YouTube. And I will eventually be posting them on LinkedIn as well. But what I'm going to do is share with you some of my experiences, my advice and my thoughts on my experience as an information security it software engineering instructor, and the career path that I've had over the last 20 years or so. And the hopes that I can share with you, those of you who are interested in becoming an educator, so you work in the IT field, you work in information security, you're a software developer, maybe you work in data science, or you know, some other highly technical field and you listen to this podcast, I want to share with you some thoughts I have and advice that you know, you can take it or leave it, it's up to you on how to become an educator. And so there are several people who have, you know, I've done a lot of hiring over the years, I've seen things that have been done, right. And I've seen things that have been done wrong. And you know, I've given a lot of advice to people over the years as a teacher trainer. So you know, many of you know, I worked in education for a very long time, I was a teacher and then realized I had a larger impact as a teacher trainer. And so I wanted to answer some of the most frequently asked questions and share some stories, advice, tips, etc. So you'll be seeing over the next month or so some shorter episodes, more frequent episodes, where I am taking the audio from some of the videos. And we'll be sharing them here with you on the podcast. So I do talk about a technology teacher toolkit in this, in this video, the audio of this video. So I will put the link to that in the show notes. And that will be in the link, or I'm sorry, will be in the show notes for all of the episodes that come beyond this. So enjoy. Have a listen, talk to you soon. Hello, everybody. Welcome. I am Heather Monthie. And I am going to start doing some quick short videos to share with you some of my experiences about becoming a it information security technology educator and my transition that I made from becoming a technologist to becoming a technology educator. Over the years I have worked in education at all different levels. And I get a lot of questions from people about how to make that transition. So I wanted to make this video series to to share with you some of my experiences and some of my thoughts and some things that you can do. If you are currently working in the IT technology field, you are interested in helping to give back and develop the next generation of technology professionals, whether you want to do it full time or part time or on your own, etc. So I wanted to just share with you today a little bit about my story, and how I got into becoming a technology educator. And so my first foray into teaching was back as a flight instructor. I always sort of knew as a child that I really enjoyed teaching, I liked working with people helping them achieve their goals. And so I always just kind of felt like I work in education in some capacity. And so I became a flight instructor. And I really found that I enjoyed teaching. That airline pilot career path didn't work out for me, it just didn't happen. That's a whole nother story.

This episode is a replay of a live podcast I was on where 2 other women and myself shared our experiences and stories about being a woman in tech. This episode originally aired in June on the Arizona Technology Council's Tech Cast. I am sharing with you the full episode here with full permission to do so. Enjoy!

Manny Felix, Founder & CEO - AZ Cyber InitiativeLinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/manuel-felix-0468a1bb/Website: https://azcyber.org/Make a donation today! https://azcyber.org/donate/ AZ Cyber Initiative Social Media Links:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/az-cyber-initiative/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/azcyberinitiative/Twitter: https://twitter.com/az_cyberFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AZCyberInitiative/Beginner’s Guide to Developing a High School Cybersecurity Program https://www.heathermonthie.com/shop/ In this episode, Manny and I discuss: How he got into cybersecurity without a cybersecurity-related degree or a technical backgroundThe AZ Cyber Initiative and it's goals to encourage more high school and community college students to consider a career in cybersecurity. How Manny came up with the idea to form a non-profit to support his vision and some advice for other people who may be considering starting up a non-profit in their area.The future of the AZ Cyber Initiative and how you can get involved even if you're not in AZ. Heather Monthie 0:01Welcome to the cyber coffee talk podcast with me Dr. Heather Monthie. I help break down important topics in information security for you, the business leader, information security leader, education leader, or protective mom or dad to help you make informed decisions to protect your business, your assets, and most importantly, your family. Regardless of your industry, cybersecurity is one of the most important issues facing us today. Let's work together to make cyberspace a safer place. Today's episode is with Manny Felix, who is the founder and CEO of the Arizona cyber initiative, a new nonprofit here in Arizona that is dedicated to helping high school students explore cybersecurity careers. Manny found me on LinkedIn. And we've just started chatting about what he was doing and what he was doing with the nonprofit. And I ended up becoming a board member of the Arizona cyber initiative and very passionate about the things that he's doing with this nonprofit. So I wanted him to come on the podcast and share it with you. So we're gonna just get right into today's episode. Let's go meet Maddie. This is our second episode where we have a guest on the podcast. I'm really excited about this. Today's guest is Manny Felix, he is the founder and CEO of the AZ cyber initiative. I'm going to let him tell you all about the initiative, all about himself, all that kind of stuff in the episode, so I'm not even going to go over it. Let's just jump right in. So Manny, thank you for coming on the podcast today. Manny Felix 1:40No, thank you, Heather. I really appreciate it. I'm very excited to be here. Heather Monthie 1:44So why don't you tell our listeners just a little bit about what your background is, and then how you got interested in cybersecurity? Manny Felix 1:51Sure, I always enjoy answering this question. And I think it's mainly because I don't have a very traditional path to how I got into cybersecurity. I like to sometimes say that was a little bit of luck and a little bit of just coincidence being at the certain place at a certain time. But then again, I think a lot of us grew up in a in a generation or in a time where we didn't grow up thinking oh, we're going to be cybersecurity professionals or even IT professionals. So, you know, I think I kind of find myself falling into that into that category as well. A couple of months before I graduated from the University of Arizona, I majored in, I was majoring in political science and Spanish legal translation interpretation. I had goals and aspirations since I was in middle school to go to law school and, you know, be an immigration lawyer. Since I, I wasn't born in the US, but I grew up in Mexico, I kind of wanted to find a profession that combined both cultures and both nationalities and find ways of giving back to the community where you know, where I grew up for so long.

www.CyberCoffeeTalk.com I got to see IBM's Quantum Computer - the System One! https://www.heathermonthie.com/ibm-quantum-computer-system-one/ How to protect your organization from ransomware https://www.heathermonthie.com/how-to-protect-your-organization-from-ransomware/ Sign up to be the first notified when my new cybersecurity education book is available! https://www.heathermonthie.com/cyberedbook/embed/#?secret=tnnY9ARB3B Listen to this episode at: https://www.heathermonthie.com/quantum-computing-ransomware-password-managers-and-getting-started-with-a-career-in-cybersecurity/ Join in the Cyber Coffee Talk Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/cybercoffeetalk/ Topics covered in today's podcast: Quantum Computing and CybersecurityRansomwareUsing password managers and MFAGetting users and developers to understand securityGetting started with a career in cybersecurity and what to do if you don’t have a degree in security? Additional links discussed in today's episode: Colonial Pipeline Cyber Attack Timeline https://www.msspalert.com/cybersecurity-breaches-and-attacks/ransomware/colonial-pipeline-investigation/Colonial Pipeline CEO: Paying Ransomware was the Right Thing to Do https://bgr.com/business/colonial-pipeline-update-ceo-explains-payment-network-goes-down-again-5926531/Hydra Darknet Made over 1.3B in 2020 https://thehackernews.com/2021/05/russian-hydra-darknet-market-made-over.htmlHave I Been Pwned https://1password.com/haveibeenpwned/Last Pass and Mult-Factor Authentication (MFA) https://www.lastpass.com/products/multifactor-authenticationCybersecurity Domain Map https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cybersecurity-domain-map-ver-30-henry-jiang/CyberSeek https://www.cyberseek.org Connect with Joe here! Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeurbz/Twitter - @mrurbzFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/MrUrbz/ https://www.youtube.com/embed/sIxuCMQfloI 0:01Welcome to the cyber coffee talk podcast with me Dr. Heather Monthie. I help break down important topics in information security for you, the business leader, information security leader, education leader, or protective mom or dad to help you make informed decisions to protect your business, your assets, and most importantly, your family. Regardless of your industry, cybersecurity is one of the most important issues facing us today. Let's work together to make cyberspace a safer place. Welcome back to the cyber coffee talk Podcast. I am Heather Monthie, your host for this podcast. Today's episode I am super excited about it is our very first guest on the podcast. If you've been listening with me for a couple of years, you know that I record at weird intervals that weird times, this is something I do on the side. And so I just record when I can. So I was really glad to get some people signed up for the to be guests on the podcast that can you know, just you'll work with crazy schedule sometimes. So this Today's guest is his name is Joe. He is somebody that I've known for many years. And I've worked with Joe in the past, I call him a friend. And he's got some really great information to share with you today about ransomware password managers, talking about how you can help people learn more about cybersecurity. If you are a person who wants to learn more about cyber security, he gives you a lot of really good tips, resources, things to go check out all of the things that we are talking about in this podcast, we don't have any sponsors on this particular episode. So all the things that he talks about those are, you know, things that he's recommending things I'm recommending, you know, and you just got to go do your research and figure out what is best for you. But these are some things that you can go check out. So join me, we're ready to get in. Alright, so we are ready to do this. We have our very first guest here today on the cyber coffee talk podcast. I have Joe herbs with me here.

Sign up to be the first notified when my new cybersecurity education book is available! https://www.heathermonthie.com/cyberedbook/ Listen to this episode at https://www.heathermonthie.com/how-to-protect-your-organization-from-ransomware/ Join in the Cyber Coffee Talk Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/cybercoffeetalk/ Ransomware’s Triple Extortion https://threatpost.com/ransomwares-swindle-triple-extortion/166149/ An undercover interview: Applying for a Job with a Ransomware Gang https://cybernews.com/security/how-we-applied-to-work-with-ransomware-gang/ NIST Releases Tips and Tactics for Dealing with Ransomware https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2021/05/nist-releases-tips-and-tactics-dealing-ransomware Detailed Fact Sheet to Prepare Your Organization for Ransomware Attacks https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Projects/ransomware-protection-and-response/documents/NIST_Tips_for_Preparing_for_Ransomware_Attacks.pdf For Fun: Unable to Resist the Urge to Wave at the End of Zoom Calls? You’re not alone. https://www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1267260?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=16212147386168&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcnews.com%2Fnews%2Fus-news%2Funable-resist-urge-wave-end-zoom-calls-you-re-not-n1267260 How to protect your organization from ransomware transcript 0:01Welcome to the cyber coffee talk podcast with me Dr. Heather Monthie. I help break down important topics in information security for you, the business leader, information security leader, education leader, or protective mom or dad to help you make informed decisions to protect your business, your assets, and most importantly, your family. 0:25Regardless of your industry, cybersecurity is one of the most important issues facing us today. 0:33Let's work together to make cyberspace a safer place. 0:39Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm Heather Monthie. In today's episode, we're going to talk about ransomware. And just kind of briefly go over what it is exactly. And talk a little bit about some of the interesting article that I found online about ransomware. And then if you are a business owner, or somebody who works in a small business in it, or cybersecurity, NIST has recently released some guidelines for pre preventing ransomware attacks or protecting yourself against ransomware attacks, I want to talk a little bit about that as well. So first, the first article that I linked to in the show notes is from threat post, it's called ransomware as new swindle, triple extortion. And so what they are reporting is that there's a there's a new threat is called triple extortion, it means that the attackers are now reaching out to customers, partners, other third parties, etc, that are related to that initial company from that initial breach, to demand payments from them to get even more cash for their crimes. They're finding that, you know, the payments have spiked over the last year, and they are averaging about $310,000 as a ransom payment. So those numbers keep going up, they keep getting, you know, paid, they're getting paid the ransom, so those numbers keep going up. And now that there's these new techniques for getting even more money, I've even seen some articles that are saying that, you know, the idea behind ransomware is that, you know, they encrypt your files, 2:15and they'll give you the key to decrypt your files, if you pay the ransom, right, so that's, that's they're, they're essentially holding your data holding your business files for for ransom. But now what I've read a few articles about is that they are actually now 2:33even, they're releasing some of the sensitive customer data that they might have, if you don't pay the ransom. So the idea there is your you know, you whether you do you don't, they're still gonna, they're gonna,