Holistic IT education / learning: secure all the things

In July, I witnessed a very interesting PoC in a talk, sketched out against a particular vendor's routers based on the "best practice" router hardening firewall configuration example given in a well recognised, highly thought of book. 

This lead me to thinking about the need for more thorough consideration of IT security throughout careers, and in particular, the danger of blindly relying on other people's information. 

I've embargoed this post until now, because it contains a low-content description of a potential vulnerability, and I can see that steps that should address it have been taken - hence the publication date; this was written shortly after that talk spurred some thoughts...

Interview / job application preparation

I’ve sat on both sides of the interview table several times. I certainly don’t think I’ve mastered either end of that game, but certainly, there are some common key things you need to think about before you submit a CV and again before you hopefully head into a job interview...