Day is one of the most ambitious and intelligent guys I've ever met. I sat down with him to talk about his career in security and his recommendations.

0:00 Introduction
0:10 Current role at Datadog
0:24 Previous Role Soc Analyst
1:03 First job in the technical field
1:31 Day is super young! (20 years old!)
1:42 How to get an internship as a freshman
4:23 Cloud support roles are great opportunities for security
5:18 Design security around a niche you already know
5:52 What certificates did you have before applying for the internship and which ones do you have now and which ones do you think are really useful?
10:10 Hands-on projects
13:30 Read incident reports and work on your communication skills.
14:50 Datadog Interview Process
18:40 Day goes to WGU
21:03 How Day balances YouTube, school, work and life.
23:17 Define goals
25:10 Sleep!
26:10 Morning routines
26:40 Final advice
27:57 Conclusion

Links of the day:

https://cyberwoxacademy.com/building-a-cybersecurity-homelab-for-detection-monitoring/
https://www.wgu.edu/
https://msha.ke/daycyberwox/
https://twitter.com/daycyberwox
https://www.youtube.com/c/DayCyberwox
https://securityblue.team/why-btl1/
YouTube: YouTube.com/c/daycyberwox
YouTube.com/c/cyberwoxacademy
Discord: https://discord.gg/tE99TvEKCU
Home Lab: https://cyberwoxacademy.com/building-a-cybersecurity-homelab-for-detection-monitoring/

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