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Meet Us, Hear Us, Play with Us at ShmooCon 2019

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An annual east coast hacker convention, ShmooCon creates a rather interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software and hardware solutions, and open discussions on critical infosec issues. We look forward to exchanging brilliant, brain-melting ideas with other security professionals and adding to Shmoo Group’s razor-sharp sense of sarcasm, cybersecurity, and threat hunting. At this year’s ShmooCon there may be less moose than ever, but there is definitely MORE Novetta! Hear from our experts in our two speaking sessions, swing by our booth to see a Novetta Cyber Analytics demo, play CTF, and check out open positions because we are...

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Surviving Advent of Code

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Once again, my night’s sleep was interrupted by an insistent alarm. I sat up in a brief moment of panicked confusion and tried to make sense of what was going on. Had the Metadata Registry’s web server crashed again, requiring a midnight trip to the office? Was there an infant in the house in need of a night feed? It took a few more seconds before I reached clarity — I was up at this ungodly hour on a weekday intentionally, for Day 17 of Advent of Code. Created by Eric Wastl, Advent of Code is a series of programming...

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Life as a Novetta Newb

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Being a young adult is hard. After spending sixteen years (usually even more than that) in school, and four or five years waiting tables or folding clothes, the transition to a real job is a lot like a waterslide. You don’t really know what the splash at the end of the pool is going to be like, and you can’t tell how close you are to it, but it’s coming. You know those waterslides that end with a giant funnel, and it dumps you into a pool? That’s a lot like starting your first career job. The transition between a...

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6 Secrets to Success from Female Leaders

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There are numerous conversations about the lack of women in the technology industry and the factors stacked against them. With National Women’s History month coming to an end and the relaunch of our Women in Novetta (WiN) program this quarter, we sat down with a few of our female leaders to celebrate their successes and identify lessons learned along the way. Our goal was to highlight actionable advice that would be helpful for other women on their career journey. 1) Build Meaningful Relationships Everything comes down to relationships – relationships with your customers, partners, employees, peers, supervisor, and with others...

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Build a Career You’re Proud of: Q&A with Tiffanny Gates

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We work in a time where women make up 59% of the US labor force and earn 60% of all undergraduate and graduate degrees. However, women only hold 4.6% of CEO positions in Fortune 500 companies, 9% of management positions in the information technology field, and 0% of CEO positions in the financial services, healthcare and social industries. Those numbers don’t add up to me either… I’m proud to work for a company that defies those statistics with leaders encouraging an alternative narrative. We’re midway through our first quarter with our newly appointed President and CEO, Tiffanny Gates. Tiffanny’s resume...

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The Veteran Difference in Novetta Culture

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Highlighting the Value of a Veteran Workforce Most companies speak of or at least proclaim their core values – minimally they’re splashed somewhere on the corporate website. In my short time here at Novetta, I have found a community where those values are evident in the day to day operations resulting in success across business units. In particular, honoring the customer mission and exercising integrity, are witnessed every day in the way we conduct ourselves as a team and a company. On today especially, I wanted to take a minute to share why Veterans are an incredible part of our...

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A Hackathon Turned Sideways: Novetta Techlympics 2016

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One of the things we’re most proud of at Novetta is our people. We have super smart technologists applying robust interdisciplinary expertise to the most complex data problems in the world. We maintain a keen focus on our core values of Integrity, Customer Mission Success, Innovation and Employee Focus, and understand that cultivating a lively, sustainable tech culture for engineers and data scientists to explore and tinker with the latest technologies through hackathons, meetups, and other challenges, is essential. In order for talented techies to thrive, we must consistently offer both challenging work and fun, engaging opportunities for learning and growth....

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Inside LDP: Novetta’s Leadership Development Program

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Novetta’s Leadership Development Program trains a select group of Novetta managers in the core competencies of leadership. Learn more from recent graduate of the Leadership Development Program’s Class of 2015, Project Manager Jessica Bazoalto.  In my last blog, I discussed several learning and growth opportunities Novetta offers. However, I intentionally omitted the Leadership Development Program (also affectionately referred to as the LDP). The Leadership Development Program, in its inaugural year at Novetta, is designed to provide mentorship and development opportunities for Novetta employees. This year 14 participants were chosen from 45 applicants. The program is based on peer to peer mentoring and...

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At Novetta, Professional Growth is a Priority

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The second blog in our #LifeatNovetta series comes from Information Exploitation Project Manager Jessica Bazoalto. Jessica manages a big data analytics and visualization capability for DoD customers. Here’s her take on learning and growth opportunities at Novetta. I’m very thankful to be able to write about several growth and learning opportunities Novetta has offered me to broaden my knowledge and sharpen my skills. This is precisely why I’m excited about the topic of this blog and one of the many reasons why I love my life at Novetta. These are my top 5 growth and learning opportunities since joining Novetta. LearnSmart...

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How A Strong Engineering Culture Leads to Better Products

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The Life At Novetta Blog kicks off with an insightful testimonial of how a strong technical culture benefits engineering and product teams and inevitably, our customers. Huge thanks to Technical Lead Jason Stevens for sharing his thoughts on #LifeAtNovetta.       There are many reasons I enjoy working at Novetta – smart people, interesting work, important projects. However, one thing that stands out is the depth of the engineering culture. Novetta has a horde of excellent engineers who develop and design advanced analytic tools, biometric devices, etc., but it goes beyond that. We also have people with technical backgrounds managing projects, interfacing with clients...

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