>> In preparation for something like CTI analysis I would argue
that the potential candidate would want to get as much practice as they can writing.
And I'm not just talking about any writing, they would have to practice writing
like bottom line, up front, bluff style writing.
Because a lot of times and I go through this everyday, you know you might write a piece
that you think is great, but there could be a bunch of irrelevant details in there
that you know I would look at and cut.
So I'd argue that writing is huge, writing will get you very far.
But also scrutinizing information and data that you get is huge.
So being able to do the research, do the writing but also play red team against yourself
and really go out there looking for every bit of information whether biased or unbiased
and then comparing everything and building something out of that.
So, like I said it's a lot of practice in writing, a lot of practicing in research
and getting comfortable with tools, just getting comfortable with the internet,
I mean a lot of what we do is we profile threat actors at times.
So you know you might get a cyber criminal or a hactavist as we call them and you know a lot
of these guys use slang for instance and it's good to be knowledgeable in that area.
You kind of have to be comfortable on your feet with a lot of things
and the biggest thing I would argue is, you have to be motivated, because an IT,
in cyber security, things are going to change and you have
to be ready to adapt a 100% of the time, so.