May 17, 2022
Joining the podcast this week is Bash Kazi, CEO of Cyber Range Solutions. He shares perspective on the importance of experiential and continuous training across red team, blue team and threat hunting and creating real world environments to learn based on existing and emerging threats. He also shares some stories from the field such as a voter hacking simulation won by a 15-year-old student as well as available resources and organizations that provide veterans a place to learn cyber skills for low or no cost.
CEO, Cyber Range Solutions
Mubashir G. Kazi is the CEO of Cyber Range Solutions. He has over
25 years of global experience with governments and Fortune 500
companies (3M, Exxon & Xerox) in the areas of engineering,
security, Information Technology and program management. Mr. Kazi
holds graduate and post-graduate degrees in Engineering from McGill
University in Montreal, Canada and has extensive post-graduate
research and training in Advanced Project, Risk Management and
Program Management skills specific to the fields of engineering and
technology management from Stanford University. Mubashir has also
served as a management consultant on several security programs
around the world (Qatar, Israel, UAE, Pakistan, Afghanistan and
USA). His expertise includes national border security, counter
narcotics technology development & deployment, engineering
management, cyber security training and international program
management. Mubashir was the Architect and Program Manager
supervising the design, management and execution for a program
involving the deployment of several thousand personnel for the
development of a National Data Repository, Border Security, Machine
Readable Passport and Electronic Voter Registration system for the
Ministry of Interior, Government of Pakistan. Mubashir has
architected the creation of one of the largest citizen data
repositories and overseen the national census data gathering
initiative to document over 100 million individuals.
For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e181