Interview with Jeff Minakata

With over 23 years of experience in the IT industry, he is a skilled cybersecurity professional with a diverse set of certifications including C|OSINT, CEH v8 - v12, CISP, Metasploit, ACE, and more. As an online instructor, he is passionate about sharing his expertise in OSINT, ethical hacking, and network security. He has contracted courses for reputable organizations like EC-Council and Udemy, and his articles have been featured in leading publications such as Hakin9 and eForensics magazine.

Although our readers are familiar with your articles in eForensics Magazine, could you kindly introduce yourself again?

Hi, my name is Jeff Minakata. I am an IT professional with about 23 years of experience, an ethical hacker, and OSINT investigator. I also teach network security and OSINT (Open source intelligence) on a couple of online platforms.

Could you please share some information about your work and how you got started?

My day job is networking with a focus on phishing attacks, viruses, hacking attempts, occasional OSINT investigation, etc. On the side, I like to teach OSINT and network security-related topics to people. I got started taking any job that had anything computer related. I started off working as an electronic sales rep for Office Depot, Gateway Computers as a sales rep, then into the customer service desk, then repairs. I performed side jobs repairing people’s computers and setting up networks at people’s homes, and eventually landed a desktop support job that I worked....

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