Episode 1: “Card Me, Bro!”
Some people like it, some people hate it, some people just like it to get out of the office once in a while, even though they rarely often get to pick the circumstances as to why and where. For security folks, unless we’re masochists, it’s usually the latter, and here’s my tale of one of those first trips I ever had that wasn’t conference related.
This all began when I had my first actual title with “security” in it, a year or two after I moved back from Los Angeles at the end of the dot-com bust. I had two roles prior in smaller organizations, both on the edge of teetering into the abyss of irrelevancy and solvency. My role was at a Fortune 125 energy company in Baltimore, Maryland as a security engineer. I had enough tech experience, and we also didn’t have the stratification we do nowadays to be called “junior”, but it was my first one with that officially in my title.