Martin McKeay, thanks for talking to us. You are an expert in information security, could you please tell us more about you, your technical background and your motivations?
I started in IT nearly 20 years ago as a help desk technician, I’m now a Senior Security Advocate and I’ve done nearly every job in between. In my early career, I managed several small networks as the sole IT person for an entire company, meaning I had to be desktop support, server administrator and network all at the same time. I’d always been interested in security, but when I started digging into PCAPs and IDS alerts, I realized it was the career I wanted to pursue. This led to a role as a security manager at a small business, which I left to spend time as a Payment Card Industry Qualified Security Assessor, and finally to my current role at Akamai. During much of that time I’ve also recorded a weekly security podcast and maintained a blog (www.mckeay.net)