As someone who didn’t start in IT, y’all gotta start in IT

If you’re struggling to break into cybersecurity, blame the flood of cybersecurity programs that pump out 21 year olds with zero IT experience. Not knowing how Active Directory, Azure, GCP, AWS, VMWare works but knowing that TLS 1.0 is insecure is not useful in the industry.

Become a sys admin, help maintain a few enterprise environments, find your interest whether that’s cloud, virtualization, containers, app dev, traditional on prem infrastructure, and dive into it with a security focus.

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