Hi there, I’m Figeko, nice to meet you.
It’s a great pleasure to have you here today and I like to start by introducing myself. I started as a baby technician using a computer at the age of 10. I start by playing computer games and exploring the early years of the internet(at least in Italy). Unlike many IT nerds, I didn’t start from shell or small programming. My first operating system was Windows XP, and from that system, I began over time to realize what I could do with that keyboard in front of me. I could play games but also use them to learn or to create research for school and that in my mind was more and more incredible.
After a few years, I decided to start the technical academic path at the technical institute near my city. At 15 years old, after school, I started disassembly my computer and watched videos about computer configuration and pieces. The hardware passion was at its peak, each hardware component was a rare gem for me to know details and specifications about. Continuing in high school, I begin to develop some small pieces of code, by starting with C, C++, and Assembly. I enjoyed low-level programming in those years until I met my worst enemy, web application programming. I have to say, I don’t like Java, and web application development and the last year in high school was very hard for me, in the subject of systems and networks it was all clear to me but when someone told me to use Javascript inside HTML and CSS my mind freezes.
The high school years ended and I decided to start my career in the working world to learn during the working years, IT certification has always been an important point of this way and I considered it a good point to demonstrate one’s skills outside of the academic path. But in recent years I think this perspective has changed and I’m more concentrated on projects or just studying without a specific vendor certification. This blog aims to be one of those.
My first job was 1st and 2nd level help desk for really small companies (about 1-50 workstations), the classic IT guy that troubleshoots printers and computers and sometimes some VMs. In this experience, I learned what I did not want to do in my career and what steps I should take to work as a cyber security guy.
After 2 years I decide to move forward into my current job with a lot of things to learn and different customer sizes. For the past 4 years, I’ve been involved in a lot of tasks regarding a monitoring system based on Zabbix and Grafana, a small period on backups and replication and I integrated a Citrix team to provide desktops, but most importantly I started my path in cyber security by provide and manage EDR product as CrowdStrike. Over the past 2 years, I have been able to develop concrete skills in the world of cyber security. Expanding my knowledge of security in Active Directory and Network as well as systems security through the use of EDRs. And now I see in front of me only the goal of actually presenting and positioning myself as a security engineer to be able to support companies and clients in managing and optimizing cyber processes within companies.