The one thing that "frustrated" me about learning cybersecurity is that I couldn't find a good free online course curriculum that just lays out what you need to learn. When I was learning to be a software dev, I was able to do Odin and it lays out a good curriculum and gives you a strong foundation.
With cybersecurity, I'm kind of having to find my own way. I'm not going to take a bootcamp, not going to school, so I just needed to research and kind of teach myself.
So far I've been reading the Network+ book, and watching Darknet Diaries and googling terms that I run across, and reading Reddit - a lot of Reddit. At first, I wasn't sure if I was learning anything, but last night, I went back to this article about how to [redacted] a very popular site... and when I first read it about 3 months ago, I didn't understand anything it was saying.
Last night, when i read it, I went
cause everything made so much sense. I was like, "wait a minute... I can do this... I know how to do this
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