The very beginning of my IT security career has started in the Security Operations Center of one big global pharmaceutic company. I have succeeded already in that company in other role - the QA, quality manager. Coming from the manager role to the junior analyst was great lesson for my ego. Salary wise - it was reduction up to 60% down. But I knew this as a big investment of my time and efforts. I am ever grateful for that! As well I am for the chance I was given there to switch to the IT sec and start the journey of lifetime. In just one year, I personally handled 1847 security incidents. Working in 24/7 shift mode, I had to handle various types of issues: Vulnerability remediation, Permission fixing, Malware on devices, malicious traffic, data leaks, APT activity and more. The job was interesting, but very demanding. Just from the work - life balance point of view: I missed a lot of events of people I cared about just because I had my shift. I have missed even more because then I had to sleep before getting onto next shit. And then, when I had some free time to study, it was way more difficult with the circadian rhythm broken in parts. The job back at my days was poorly automated. A lot of manual effort, meaning the analyst (not just myself) would miss a stuff because of lack of sleep and repetitive tasks. Vast amount of data had to be processed "by heart". Manual entries of the same information into the multiple systems. This is when I started with my knowledge graphs. I wanted to use the AI to think about repetitive tasks instead of me and freed my mental capacity for more interesting work and study on the job. I wanted to leverage the natural properties of human brain and mind, how we spot the patterns in colors and shapes.

My "Alma Mater" - the SOC where I started has matured a lot since the time I worked there. They manage to have fewer analysts, because a lot of job is automated now. And I continue to work on the AI "textbooks" to build modules possible for adoption by the AI to take care of threat detection and hunting.