Tom Gorup: Fail fast and fail forward. [Operations]

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🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Enjoy this encore episode with Vice President of Security and Support Operations of Alert Logic Tom Gorup shares how his career path led him from tactics learned in Army infantry using machine guns and claymores to cybersecurity replacing the artillery with antivirus and firewalls. Tom built a security automation solution called the Grunt (in recollection of his role in the Army) that automated firewall blocks. He credits his experience in battle-planning for his expertise in applying strategic thinking to work in cybersecurity, noting that communication is key in both scenarios. Tom advises that those looking into a new career shouldn't shy away from failure as failure is just another opportunity to learn. We thank Tom for sharing his story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	My name is Tom Gorup, I'm Vice President of Security and Support Operations at Alert Logic.
1:17.0	I remember, I think, 13 or 14 14 when I built my first website. That's really where it all
1:28.0	started where that interest began. Thinking about communicating with people on the other side of the world in
1:34.2	milliseconds so the internet ended itself and how it worked was was fascinating to me.
1:49.5	And I joined the Army shortly after high school with a different profession. I actually went to work on computers to do a computer-related role in the Army and ended up with an
1:58.4	infantry position. So I wouldn't say I lost interest, it was always there.
2:04.0	I always continued to dabble in different types of technology and just play with things, but
2:09.6	my career, the focus at the time was infantry, it was a grunt that's the way to say.
2:19.2	I was learning a lot more of leadership fundamentals in the military, learning how to, you know, lead a team, to train a team.
2:27.7	And as I was going through that process, I remember in Afghanistan, reading the CCNA study guide in my bunk, right? There was no lab for me to test these things out on,
2:38.0	no actual hands-on- keyboard activities that could could be doing so just laying in the bunk reading
2:44.3	I remember reading the first three or four chapters probably two or three times because I
2:48.2	didn't understand any of it and I finally got to the security section and I was like
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