Alright so I'm not totally disappointed we weren't on that road that long I mean you know I hate being out there and we kind of dove back into the forest and I know where we're heading we're heading towards that dump and that's where we're bringing the probably run into the trail at four I think it's 464 at baseline part so you know it's not that far away because I you know I do know these roads here actually I mean then here three years I'm kind of learning my way around so you know I wanted to get back guy guy asked me well not a guy I've had multiple comments at parlor asking me hey you know how can you call yourself that cyber security guy what credentials have you got blah blah blah blah and that's right and I love that episode righteous question your majesty so so I thought I'd just kind of make this video to talk a bit about my background I was in the IT industry for 26 years but I was in on the government and corporate side and so you know while I knew a lot about you know mainly digital computers way back dating myself many years ago starting with the PDP 11 you know and coming all the way up I was a Unix administrator actually I started as a programmer a C programmer gashon how long ago was C and then you had C++ which I programmed in that for a while and then C pound never really got into the C pound I used Pearl there's a lot so many languages you know now that everybody's into Python and you know that probably that's outdated who knows you know I'm just haven't really kept up with it in the last four or five years per say but you know I got I was working for a large bank I don't want to name them in a huge data center you know when the World Trade Center went down we had to build a new data center and they chose Michigan and so I got a job in there and we were building out the data center and things were going great I love the job you know you work 12 hour shift three days and then you're off for four days and then you work four days and you're off three days and so that was ideal for me to get out and go camping and do hiking and my career was just spiraling along you know and making good money not great it's still tough work don't get me wrong I mean you know and then you had to be there on time and in Michigan those roads can get really bad but so getting back to the business that hand where did that cybersecurity guy come from you know at that time I was managing the people soft software I was doing all the autosystems scheduling and I also handled all of the PGP encryption for the company you know on a global basis right through me so you know I was flying high you know got this career I'm you know I'm the go-to guy for all of that stuff and you know you get a big head on your shoulders thinking you know look at me beat my chest I am I am the computer guy at that time like cyber security now as far as security went you know here's a little tip for you guys if you do come up on the radar and you know the FBI is gonna raid your house or whatever you've gotten yourself into okay you're gonna have to throw them a bone okay give them give them something to find so that they think they got everything and that's what we would do we would get audited from time to time I won't say what corporation I was working for at that time but it was a bulti-billion dollar corporation and so when the auditors would come in and these are supposedly cyber security experts you know they would we knew the tools they were gonna use and we knew where they were gonna look so we would throw them a couple things for them to find and you know minor because that's what they want to do they want to give you that slap on the wrist and say oh we did look at the job we did we saved your company you know which is total bull crap you know but if you don't throw something out there for them to find they're gonna dig deeper and and then they may find something for real hey they're gonna we're here well it's kind of a nothing hike wouldn't it well well there's a trail over there where we came out the other day all right well bummer bummer bummer well well it's going across this is nice over here you've already seen this but well anyway that does solve the mystery I've always been curious because I only made it to right there in the past so anyway once they once they find that and they slap you on the wrist and you can go back and quickly fix those things and and then they might even come back in and say oh you fixed it good job you guys are you're you're now secure you know and you just laugh at them and say yeah I go on about your way so yeah if you're gonna get ready make sure you got some computers there you know get you some backup computers stick them someplace where they ain't gonna find them and you know make sure you got you know some stuff on those computers that you know I'm not talking you know illegal stuff but stuff for them to find that you know they're gonna have to dig and look at might not just just throwing that out there whatever so my whole background was was in corporate and government security which doesn't lend itself to personal cybersecurity or small business cybersecurity and it's incredible how different the two are and so my idea once I got cancer well I got cancer once and I we got me into remission his lymphoma decil got into remission and you know they did go from me my job back I went back to that large bank and I was working in the data center things had changed you wouldn't believe how much things change when you're building a data center in over a six-month period and it was rough man I mean because that chemotherapy had not made me down and those 12-hour shifts now became like you know a mountain decline and but anyway I was getting there I think things were settling in and then the cancer came back a second time and I had to get a stem cell transplant and that that ended my career because it was gonna be another year before I could get back to that job and to their credit they did offer me a job it wasn't the same job and they offered more they job they offered me was just set up to it was a set up you know they don't want it they don't want a cancer survivor in these corporations you know they did they just don't give a crap about you as an individual and it was gonna be 12 hours of hard physical labor because what they had done is they divided the team up into the technical team and then you had the raccoon stacking you know buss and buttons on the on the data center floor all day long team which was young kids they were all 25 to 35 probably maybe even one or two older ones and still there and I just knew there was no way in hell I could do that job so I didn't even bother to go back and so I had this idea of starting a cyber security business and I thought well hell you know nobody and I looked around you know what's the niche you're gonna fill there are here hundreds of books on government and corporate cyber security and you know what what security aspects that I do you know basically I applied the latest updates to Unix you know administered the computers we you know locked I knew how to lock down files you know make hidden files put in hidden directories all that sort of you know novice type stuff in the corporate world you know until the encryption I could definitely have done a whole book on encryption technology but I thought hey you know there's a niche out here and that is personal and small business cyber security and maybe I can fill that because I couldn't find a single book on personal and small business cyber security and so I set off on a five-year journey to write the ultimate cyber security guide for small business and home computing and in the end it was a 960 page book and Void sometime I'll have to tell you in another video that whole journey you know I cuz I what I found out was really how much I did not know in that journey you know because there's different that people don't understand they say well you're a computer guy you gonna know this oh no I'm so for example you throw me here's the fire break for California hey you know maybe manage it first so yeah I mean it's the whole you you okay throw me in front of the Apple computer okay I'm acting time for example I wouldn't know what to do you know the same thing when I first got in front of a PC you know I had been working on text terminals with Unix my whole career and then you know when I that contract came to an end I went into the shop and everybody had PCs and they said well you know just arrow down to the start button what the hell is a start button you know I never never had a PC at that time and I you know I was in the course kind of like those main framers you know if you know the guys that work on the IBM mainframes you know they're computer illiterate when it comes to using PCs and so that in particular job they they tried to find me work but you know I had to learn on the job and I did every day I studied you know access I learned how to use word I became a word expert I became a cell you know all of the tools at the PowerPoint I was putting together presentations and eventually they just kicked me out the door and so this guy's an idiot because I you know it took because you think about it you got a lot of these people get a school four years to learn this stuff and I did learn a lot in six months so that's where it all began this video is getting long. Mazwa hike back to the campground and we'll finish up where that cyber security guy came from and all the pitfalls of starting a small business that you're gonna need to know and that's enough for a video for today.