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    Last chance for online career mentorship, for a while

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    February 19, 2025

    As I turn my attention to the major life change of moving to Australia, this will be the last opportunity to take advantage of my free, weekly cybersecurity career mentorship sessions for the indefinite future. I’ve really enjoyed providing this service on top of my normal career clinics at conferences,…

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    Podcast: Expanding Frontiers Research

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    February 19, 2025

    In this podcast, I’m asked about current and future trends in industrial cyberattacks, as well as a variety of community and social issues facing our industry in the future.

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    On Cybersecurity Mentorship

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    February 16, 2025
    On Cybersecurity Mentorship

    I want to take a moment to articulate my thoughts on cybersecurity mentorship and what it should entail. I speak a lot about problems I see doing extensive mentoring and career clinics, but I have been repeatedly asked for a formal resource on how to conduct mentorships (and find a…

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    A Very Personal Interview with SecurityWeek Magazine

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    February 16, 2025
    A Very Personal Interview with SecurityWeek Magazine

    I hope you enjoy my latest interview with SecurityWeek Magazine on my career and the future of OT cybersecurity. https://www.securityweek.com/rising-tides-lesley-carhart-on-bridging-enterprise-security-and-ot-and-improving-the-human-condition/

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    A Fun Chat With Patrick Miller

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    January 4, 2025

    Happy Saturday, all! I hope you’re having a lovely weekend. This week, I had a fun chat with a long time friend and colleague, Ampyx‘s Patrick Miller. We talked about one of my favorite tech topics – digital forensics in the weird and wacky world of critical infrastructure – where…

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    My Upcoming SANS Classes!

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    December 3, 2024

    I will be teaching two SANS ICS515 classes at upcoming events. You can attend in person or virtually at: San Francisco (Live and Online) Jan 27: https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/ics-visibility-detection-response/ Dallas, TX (Live and Online) Mar 24: https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/ics-visibility-detection-response/

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    Some of my favorite podcast appearances in 2024

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    December 3, 2024

    And, without further ado, here are some of the fun, smart people I have gotten to speak to on podcasts this year! Yes, blog aside, I’ve been busy! Cyber Uncut: Making your ICS/OT environments cyber secure, with Dragos’ Lesley Carhart Cyber Security Weekly Podcast: Episode 413 – Operational Technology (OT)…

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    Some of my favorite talks in 2024

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    December 3, 2024

    Hello, I understand I have been terribly delinquent in posting, so I wanted to share in the interim, some of my favorite talks of the past year. I hope you enjoy, and look forward to seeing you soon! I spoke to DomainTools about the current state of Industrial Cybersecurity and…

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    Lessons Learned from Cybersecurity Mentoring

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    January 3, 2023
    Lessons Learned from Cybersecurity Mentoring

    I suppose one could say that I’ve been doing this far too long, and I’ve gained some knowledge about how the cybersecurity industry works, and how people succeed or fail at the field. To give back to newcomers, I recently opened up a Calendly to do ad hoc career mentoring,…

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    Career Counseling Office Hours!

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    December 5, 2022

    I now have some limited appointments for career counseling and resume discussion open for sign-ups. These sessions are free for college students and current enlisted military, and tip-what-you can for everyone else, if you feel my help was meaningful. You can sign up here: https://calendly.com/lesleycarhart Keep in mind that I…

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Hello,

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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