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Reasonable Expectations for Cybersecurity Mentees
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Continue reading →: Reasonable Expectations for Cybersecurity MenteesMost of my audience is on the more senior end of the career spectrum. As a result, a lot of my writing about careers is aimed at senior cybersecurity professionals, encouraging managers and experienced practitioners to support the next generation. But that doesn’t mean newcomers are free from responsibility in…
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Continue reading →: The Top 10 Things I’d Like to See in University OT Cybersecurity Curriculum (2025 Edition)Most of you who have been following me for a while know that I have a very strange and unusual job in cybersecurity. I’m one of maybe a hundred or so people on earth who does full time incident response and forensics for industrial devices and networks that are hacked.…
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Continue reading →: Open Online Mentoring GuideI’ve had a sign up for open online career mentoring on my site for quite a number of years now (in addition to running similar career clinics in-person). As I’ve gotten more and more traction internationally on the program, a lot of senior folks have asked how to set up…
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Continue reading →: Stories Ink Interviewed Me, and I love Stories.
I was recently at the Tech Leaders Summit in Hunter Valley and the imitable Jennifer O’Brien covered my backstory and how I got into the odd space of Operational Technology. This is a nice change of format for people who aren’t into podcasts and she tells such a good narrative.…
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Continue reading →: The National Cryptologic Foundation PodcastIt was a real honor to appear on the official podcast of the National Cryptologic Foundation, “Cyber Pulse”. They interview a wide range of intriguing personalities working in the cyber and cryptography space, and asked me a broad range of challenging questions about everything from performing forensics on national critical…
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Continue reading →: I’m in Melbourne, and PancakesCon 6 is On!
Hello all! It’s my pleasure to announce I’m settled enough to operate my free educational conference for the 6th year. It will be a bit late this year, on September 21st. I invite you to check out the website at https://www.pancakescon.com as well as our associated socials, where you can…
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Continue reading →: I Had Some Adventures with Alice and Bob (Podcast)! Also, what’s next for Auntie Lesley?Hi pals! It’s been a busy few months for me. Next week, I make my big move to Australia, so my blog might drop off for a bit while I get settled. I’ve gotten to cram in some final North American conference speaking appearances in Halifax (AtlSecCon), Milwaukee (CypherCon), and…
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Interview with Safety Detectives
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Continue reading →: Interview with Safety DetectivesHappy Monday, friends! I hope you had a great weekend. I had an interesting interview with Safety Detectives about steps we can take to make things better for the next generation of cyber defenders. I encourage you to check out the article, here: https://www.safetydetectives.com/blog/lesley-carhart-dragos/
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Continue reading →: My New Paper on OT Ransomware!Hello friends, I’m very excited to publish my first SANS Institute Whitepaper. I have developed a formal framework for preparing for OT / ICS ransomware attacks. I really hope you enjoy the paper and find it useful in building a strong defense against cyber-crime. You can download the white paper,…
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Continue reading →: Lesley, What Happened to the “Cybersecurity Skills Shortage”?Are you stressed out right now? I’m stressed out. Most Americans are, and cybersecurity job seekers are definitely not an exception. I do a ton of career mentoring and career clinics, and I see… the brunt of it. The last few mentoring Sundays I’ve done, I have had two or…
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I’m Lesley, aka Hacks4Pancakes
Nice to meet you. I’m a long-time digital forensics and incident response professional, specializing in industrial control and critical infrastructure environments. I teach, lecture, speak, and write about cybersecurity.
I’m from Chicago, living in Melbourne.
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