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Ian Blumenfeld: Swimming in a pool of cyber. [Research] [Career Notes]

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Technology, Daily News, News, Tech News

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Ian Blumenfeld, a Research Director from Two Six Technologies sits down to share his story with us. Ian begins his story by sharing he wanted to be a scientist, slowly he began to figure out and pinpoint more of what he liked about science, which ended up being math. Ian explains how math began to become a passion for him, and he eventually tried to pursue a career in it by teaching. He discovered teaching was not the thing for him and then started to move into the direction he wanted too, taking on more and more challenging roles until he landed where he is today. Ian says "If you're a smart person and you have skills in coding, you can swim. So it's okay to jump. It's okay to jump into the lake, you can swim. Something will get you out. You will have, you will be able to find a job. So, if you see something that looks cool, if you see something that advances you to the next stage of your career, if you have to take a little bit of a risk, it's okay." Ian wants to be someone who helped make the world a little better when it comes to code and wants to shares his desires and passions with the community. We thank Ian for sharing his story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Visit z-scaler.com slash Zero zero trust AI. Hi, my name is Ian Blumenfeld and I am the research director for High

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Assurance Solutions at 2-6 technologies. I always used to say when I was a kid I want to be a scientist. Actually I remember

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when I got my first business cards when I worked at Cyberpoint actually, the first

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time I ever had business cards in my life, I got them printed and my job title was scientist.

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