Security Data Science Teams: A Guide to Prestige Classes

Presented at BSidesLV 2023, Aug. 8, 2023, 5 p.m. (45 minutes).

As more of security becomes driven by data, a menagerie of job titles have cropped up across the industry. Data Scientist, ML Engineer, Data Engineer, AI Researcher, and more have become de rigeur job titles - but the lines between each role remain blurry, especially for early career and non-data folks. In this talk, we talk about where the skills of these roles overlap, how to pursue a security data career, and crucially, offer some hot takes on why maybe we need some clearer lines.

Presenters:

• Erick Galinkin
  Erick Galinkin is a hacker and computer scientist working as principal researcher in Rapid7's Office of the CTO. Presently, Erick leads R&D supporting Rapid7's Managed Detection and Response service. An alumnus of Johns Hopkins University, he has published a number of academic papers and given talks on security decision theory and artificial intelligence applications for security at conferences from AAAI and GameSec to DEF CON's AI Village. He has spent his entire life in different parts of information security, ranging from threat intelligence and malware analysis to cloud security and security architecture.

Links:

• https://www.bsideslv.org/talks#GKCRKK

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