206- Nerding Out on Cybersecurity with Douglas Pierre O’Knightly

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Douglas Pierre O’Knightly Douglas Pierre O’Knightly is an Air Force veteran and lifelong gamer who brings creative solutions to high-value enterprises as a cybersecurity expert. His varied 20-year IT career includes starting businesses, designing games, and pioneering communications in war zones. Douglas loves solving complex tech problems with simple, efficient designs that minimize waste. With a passion for emerging tech, Douglas helps companies prep for cybersecurity regulations. Nerding Out on Cybersecurity with Douglas Pierre O’Knightly Join cybersecurity expert Douglas Pierre O’Knightly for a fascinating discussion covering his passion for Dungeons and Dragons and lessons learned from detecting a network breach while in the Air Force. He also shares insights into entering the cybersecurity field, handling emerging issues like ransomware attacks, and adopting the right mindset to make meaningful contributions in this rapidly evolving space.

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0:00.0	All right, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds today.
0:13.9	Douglas Pierre, you have D. Pierre in parentheses, oh, nightly. And cyber security
0:21.3	officiado of sorts, I'll let you talk more about that. But what's
0:26.1	cooler in what I'm looking at right now is, which I think is
0:30.6	completely appropriate because the show is called dissecting popular IT
0:35.6	nerds. And this is quite nerdy.
0:42.5	Is you on a base in Afghanistan playing Dungeons and Dragons?
0:47.3	And for anyone listening, you can go to Douglas's LinkedIn profile.
0:49.8	And it's like, I don't know, it's not too far back.
0:52.3	Go to his posts and find the Dungeons and Dragons.
0:53.0	No, no, no, no.
0:56.5	It's underfeatured, fourth featured thing of you playing Dungeons and Dragons and what looks like, I don't know if you guys built it,
1:01.0	like the plywood. What do we call this structure that you guys are sitting in? And welcome to
1:06.1	the show. Welcome. Thanks. Thanks for having me. It's pretty awesome how it just popped up out of nowhere,
1:12.1	but I'm really happy that you got excited about that point because I thought you were going to
1:16.1	talk to me about cybersecurity and I'm just like, oh, I'm so tired talking about cybersecurity.
1:19.5	Well, I mean, we've got to protect it. We've got to protect all these figurines, you know, and,
1:24.4	so anyways, go ahead. We have to protect the world of Dungeons and Dragons, but go ahead,
1:29.4	fire away. Well, it's getting more popular now. So, you know, that might be, that might be getting
1:33.0	true. But, uh, it's more popular off in an off the grid fashion, like living off the grid, or is this
1:38.8	more online? So D&D overall is more popular primarily because of the movie that just came out that made it.
1:46.7	They did a very good job in the movie from what I heard.
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