Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 246 | Jared Smith - Research and Development
Guest:
Jared Smith talks with Dave Rael about passion for what he does, security, extroversion, and building your brand
Jared is a Computer Security researcher at the US's largest national laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, where he works on projects ranging from novel security data analytics tools to malware research. He was previously a software security engineer at Cisco Systems internal security team and serves as a technical advisor for several Knoxville, TN startups.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Jared Smith
- - Jared's passion for doing the things he does for work outside work as well
- - The things that light Jared up about software and security
- - Jared's ongoing education and research experience
- - Jared's path to focusing on security research
- - Jared's thoughts on how developers should approach security and the true nature of the problem
- - Jared's advice for tackling security concerns
- - How Jared got started in software
- - Jared's story of failure - overcommitting
- - The many threads Jared has spinning
- - Jared's nature as an extrovert and comfort with speaking and teaching
- - Jared's success story - practical application of his research
- - The nature of Jared's position and interacting with government and industry
- - How Jared stays current with what he needs to know
- - Jared's book recommendation
- - The things that have Jared most excited
- - Is security just hopeless?
- - Jared's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Jared
Resources:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 2016 Dyn cyberattack
- Dyn Statement on 10/21/2016 DDoS Attack
- The Twitter Bug Bounty Program
- Twitter Bug Allowed Hackers To Tweet From Any Account
- Treehouse
- Jeff Meyerson on Developer On Fire
- Software Engineering Daily
- Jared on Software Engineering Daily
- OneTab
- OmniFocus
- Ari Meisel on Developer On Fire
- John Sonmez on Developer On Fire
Jared's book recommendation:
Jared's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Ask better questions
- Network
- Build your brand
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