Been a wild month.
Just ready to get back in it
Sometimes time off and a fresh perspective
Can help make more progress when going back to chop the wood
Best Sites To Sign Up For In Cybersecurity:
Medium
Bugcrowd
Hackerone
AWS
Azure
Linode
GitHub
HackTheBox
TryHackMe
Privacy
Portswigger
Pocketprep
DigitalOcean
Loom
Fiverr
ChatGPT
Claude
Namecheap
@HaBeebCyber
You should do most of your work in the cloud not on your machine
- Buy a Hostinger VPS for the year
- or Use Linode or Digitalocean free credit
- Use privacy(.)com temp cards to avoid cloud costs
Change the location of your LinkedIn 🌐
To the major metropolitan city 🏙️
You want to work in 💼
Even if you’re overseas ✈️
Change to the US or UK 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Thank me when the recruiters hit you 📞
Consistently month after month 📆
Cybersecurity is going to always be in demand
Tech workers are harder to layoff
Once you get experience you get a lot more
Leverage
Study things like IAM, AppSec, DevSecOps
Niche down
Put on LinkedIn
Keep steady flow of recruiters
How I went from $0—>$10/hr—>$20/hr—>$60k/yr—>$100k/yr—>$$🤫/yr
In cyber
$0
$10 - Cracker Barrel Host
$20/hr - Cyber Intern
$60/yr - Sec analyst
$100k/yr - Sec Engineer
Happened in 2 year time frame
And people make more faster
Gotta be in the game to win
Tips to get into cybersecurity:
1. Watch NetworkChuck’s YouTube
2. Learn it like a language
3. Get Security+ and a cloud cert
4. Find what you like blue or red team
5. Make some projects
6. Optimise your LinkedIn
7. Optimise your resume
It’s a new battlefield
The age of AI and automation has changed everything
Your career isn’t something you can just brute force apply
It’s best to bring an agency
You need marketing
LinkedIn
Virtual Assistants
Outreach strategy
Avoid the ATS
Carve your own path
Notice that to start a career in cybersecurity nowadays doesn’t take a lot of brain power.
Youth helps
And the
Best professionals I met come from
- playing Wii, Nintendo 64, PS2
- Help old folks figure out the latest Pearpod
- Think hacking is just cool
I'm 25 making 6 figures
Started making $60K at 21
From hosting tables at the cracker barrel
And getting a freelance web design client here and there
Cybersecurity allowed me to get a stable career that gives a flexible lifestyle
Great earning potential
Remote opportunities
You can get the certs
Get the portfolio
The Website
The labs
The GitHub
The Blog
Everything
But if you don’t apply
To 1k places
Either by yourself or with VAs
Don’t complain about no calls
For jobs you want
Cybersecurity doesn’t take much
You just need the right plan
Coupled with the right action
The game has changed
You need to build a foundation
Get certified
Get a portfolio going
Find a team don’t go it alone
Training can get stale
Make sure to find others
If you really want a remote job
This is just theory but
Build your portfolio website
Get some leads from cyberleads
Put them into smartleads
Start a cold email campaign
Asking if they need a tech support guy
Or a cybersecurity guy
You just need one yes
@allenharper
Offensive:
If you master it you can be a bug hunter, join syn ack red team, freelance with cobalt and a lot of other opportunities where you don’t have a boss and you can work where you want
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 (𝗖𝗮𝗖): Compliance as Code is like having a checklist to make sure your computer follows certain rules, like having strong passwords or keeping data safe. It helps ensure your setup meets security and legal standards.
Cybersecurity has a place for everyone 🌍🔒
Just like any skill 🔍
The first thing needed is curiosity 🧐
The next is passion ❤️
Then a vision 🌟
Once someone knows what is possible 🚀
They become unstoppable 💪
On my journey I’ve gone fast, slow, and steady 🚶♂️🏃♂️🚀
My cybersecurity entrepreneurial journey:
- Helped a friend adjust resume and gave study materials for security+
- Signed new contract
- Speaking to someone for career coaching trial
Just getting the snowball rolling
🌐 Network Configuration:
docker network ls --> list all Docker networks
docker network inspect --> view details of a specific network
docker network create --> create a new network
💡 Tips and Tricks:
Use docker-compose for managing multi-container applications with a single command.
Clean up unused resources with docker system prune.
Use .dockerignore files to exclude files and directories from the build context.
How I consistently get recruiters to reach out
1. Find the job description of the position I want
2. Do some labs or study a cert with the keywords
3. Sprinkle them into my LinkedIn and Resume
4. Expect at least 10 inbounds a month
Essential Linux Commands for Cybersecurity
🧵Linux commands are vital in cybersecurity. Here are the key commands, tips, and tricks to get you started! 🧵
Through my security career 🛡️
And tons of interviews 🎤
I suggest those on the path 🛤️
Get a lil knowledge with these 📚
And you should be good ✅
AWS ☁️
AZURE ☁️
NMAP 🛠️
Linux 🐧
Splunk 📊
HackTheBox 🧩
TryHackMe 🕵️♂️
A cool cert (niche eg. CDSA) 📜
Don’t get lost 🧭
@kelvinintech
Pass guarantee flash cards
Tracks the questions you get wrong so you can study your weak points.
I recommend completing those flash cards then going after the test again.
80% of time on pocket prep
20% udemy or ChatGPT to clarify
You’ll pass
pocketprep(.)com
@cyberandchill
As a DevSecOps engineer I can attest
Being niche in this industry
Makes you hard to find
And hard to replace
So companies pay
And recruiters reach out
To get your foot into cybersecurity it’s ideal to have…
Linux skills 🐧
Python 🐍
Cloud fundamentals cert (AWS or Azure) ☁️
Security plus cert 🔒
Personal projects (Easy to find online)👷♂️
In cybersecurity there are a lot of paths
Some are longer but guarantee you remote
Some are shorter but guarantee a job
Some are harder and guarantee remote
Just get your foot in the door
And the opportunities will come
The "I can't get a job because I don't have experience" is gone.
You have to build a home lab
You have to document
You have to optimize
If you want to be successful in tech
You got to do what you got to do
When it comes to cybersecurity 🔒
The best thing to do is build a portfolio 📁
You don’t really need Certs 📜
To get your foot in the door 🚪
Find some projects 🔍
Find some JDs 📝
Scrape them for keywords 🗝️
Put them in your resume 📄
Get that first position 🎯
People have gone from all types of backgrounds to being in tech
Pressure washing
Driving truck
Restaurant host
Electrician
It doesn’t take much
Just drive and persistence
Cybersecurity doesn’t just give you another 9-5
It frees you from the standard one
It turns the grey lit cubicle idea of a job
Into being a quarterback of a company
You’ll need some guidance on doing so
But the way of life gives life to so many options
My cybersecurity journey:
- Always loved computers and science as a kid
- Started building websites at 16
- Enrolled in community college at 18
- Got first internship at 20
- Got first job at 21
Now starting the entrepreneur journey hope it goes even better
When getting into anything and
ESPECIALLY
Cybersecurity
It is best to mainly have a genuine interest
With a genuine interest. You’ll always be able to find a new opportunity.
Cybersecurity is hot
That means it’s competitive
Which also means you can
Out smart people
Or
Out work them
And it’s pretty easy to do
To out smart
Optimize your LinkedIn ✅
Optimize resume✅
Get certs✅
Reach out to hiring managers✅
Send looms✅
And you’re
Cybersecurity gets easier as you go 🛡️
I got my internship by applying 📄
And my first job 💼
The rest from recruiter outreach 📞
Now I constantly pick and choose 🔄
New opportunities 🌟
And new ones come daily 📆
Optimize your LinkedIn 🔄
Get some base certs 📜
Niche
Cool Cybersec career paths
1. Bug bounty hunter
2. Exploit developer
3. Malware analyst
4. Malware developer
5. Red Teamer/Ethical hacker
All of these get to the six figures with side hustle and freelance opportunities.
Just got on for a new contract
They said they interviewed 20 people
with more advanced certs than me (OSCP, OSWE)
Couldn’t even answer the 101 questions
Learn the fundamentals and you can make 6 figures in security
Don’t over think it
Posting on any platform isn’t fun at first
Especially places like LinkedIn
But you got to play the game
In Linkedin you got to
Build connections
Post your certs
Apply
DM Recs and HM
Post your projects
Bonus to make consistent content