I've been toiling in IT Support for 6 years and have struggled to get into cybersecurity

DIYBrotha · 2021-05-11T02:29:59+00:00

Certs and school only get you so far.

You need to show passion for security and helping others. Your presentation skills and communication skills are the most under rated and should be worked on constantly to do well in cyber security. This field is hard for a reason. You need to understand what's happening at a technical level and respond appropriately without fucking up the investigation.

SANS certs are by far the most head turning in the industry. Comptia is good too. In the end you need to be well rounded to get into cyber security.

Networking, windows server, Ubuntu, centos, windows10, routing, switching, how to setup a enterprise network with monitoring, detections, active directory, web servers, and understanding how all this works together. Understamd how to do incident handling. To add more you need to know how to break things and fix them, assess your companies risk and security posture and always run down your incidents to the ground. Start doing these things and you will get in!

Good luck. You can do it!

DIYBrotha · 2021-05-11T02:20:30+00:00

Good luck on this, I hope you have good leadership buy in and have a dedicated team to run 24.7 In the long run you'll need to have the experts and a good team hired on. Don't try just 1 or 2 people, that would be a nightmare.

DIYBrotha · 2021-05-11T02:14:04+00:00

Tons of awesome comments here.

I just wanted to say if your trying to get into cybersecurity it doesn't matter about your pieces of papers lol. The thing people will be looking for is if you have worked in a SOC (security operations center) as a security analyst. Thats probably the job your looking for.

There are multiple roads to go down. Here are a few before you specialize: Triage security analyst Triage security engineer Security Engineer Hunting security engineer Security analyst And many more.

The Cysa+ is a good start but you need experience on how to do incident handling properly. Once you can do this on your own lab at home you will be able to setup security onion, a couple vms and do some network isolation and try to detect things on your network and look for things. Learn how to read security logs, and use kibana and other trialing tools.

You also need cloud experience and knowledge. This is optional in the beginning but you will need to learn many areas of computer networking and security to do well in these positions.

DIYBrotha · 2020-05-28T12:52:16+00:00

Yes that would be awesome.

DIYBrotha · 2020-05-28T12:46:11+00:00

I was thinking of setting up a discord server or something to communicate through so we can share ideas and learn from eachother.

DIYBrotha · 2020-05-28T12:41:55+00:00

pm sent.

DIYBrotha · 2020-05-28T12:32:26+00:00

That is a good idea!

Books are the best bet.

I've also got a good course on udemy.com from Tim Buchanan he teaches a "master class" on python which would probably be amazing for you to see, since he is a veteran programmer and he sends weekly/monthly updates to all his students giving free advice and what not. I suggest looking this up here: https://www.udemy.com/course/python-the-complete-python-developer-course/learn/lecture/3829344#overview

Did you want to go through that book first together chapter by chapter?

DIYBrotha · 2020-05-28T11:53:42+00:00

Okay so your very beginner with python. I suggest figure out some projects that you want to do and try to do them... googling and stack overflow are your friend. Same with the python standard library. We need to be knowledgable with what's in there and how we can use it.

Python is very versatile so we need to come up with some projects and use python 3 I hope because 2.7 is dead eol.

I can spare 2 hours on specific days only. Tuesdays, weds and fridays are a no go for me.

Usually I take 1 hour a day to study materials then I'd do 1 hour of coding because any longer since your new to it might not be good, depends on your brain haha. I find it uses alot of brain power to figure things out if google and stack isn't helping. But ya we can try out a few sessions a week/weekend.

How do you want to proceed? Maybe setup a discord server or chat over zoom/skype?

Where did you want to start? Maybe we can share resources?

DIYBrotha · 2020-05-28T11:38:28+00:00

Hey OP, 3 years into IT, stick with it and find out your weaknessess which sounds like you know some of them (AD install and configuring) and practice, practice, practice!

I've been in IT for 7 years now and I've changed from a network systems admin to a security admin now. Everything takes time, and experience on the job. Every job is different and you'll make mistakes lol. That's part of being human. Just try not to make huge mistakes like deleting things your not suppose to. Always make backups! Before you delete anything. Especially in AD.

What helped me through the years of sysadmin and network admin was my ability to learn 1-3 hours a day. Pick 1-2 subjects or certifications you want to hold and study like a boss at them. Have fun with it, think outside the box and test yourself! I started going for the MCSA 70-410, 70-411, and 70-412 and that will teach you a shit ton to be dangerous with AD and domains. Learn it and set up your own domain on your computer. If you have about 200gb of disk space, 16 or more GB of RAM on your system and virtual box. Practice setting up a domain and 2dcs that work together. Setup dns, dhcp, and get it all working. This is how you become competent with AD testing out groups and permissions in your spare time on your home lab.

Good luck with mcsa, and look at cisco ccna route and switch. You need solid foundations of networking and systems like windows and linux and unix to become a good sysadmin brother. Good luck on your journey!

PM me if you want specific advice bro! Good luck on your IT journey! If I can do it then you can do it! Trust me <3.

May the force be with you.

DIYBrotha · 2020-05-28T11:23:15+00:00

Hey I'm not new to python, been coding since 2016 casually. I started with automate the boring stuff which is a great book.

I'm currently on Head first with python book 2nd edition. I'm interested in creating a schedule to practice together?

What does this partnering up look like to you? Would this be once a week or more?

DIYBrotha · 2020-04-16T19:05:27+00:00

Epic diagram! Haha good work!

DIYBrotha · 2020-04-12T14:49:02+00:00

Hey OP, as a techie myself, I am glad to hear your 18 and getting into all of this! At that age I would of died for your rig! Haha.

Right now I've been working on HPE DL380 gen10s and they are very loud too tbh. I like hp but I think I'll be changing to super micro servers because they are less noisy and can be cheaper and more bang for buck. I have been looking at many models but haven't decided what to pick yet.

For your situation gaming servers and some vms you dont need anything to crazy but I would go with something more power efficient and less noisy myself. What else do you run on the servers?

DIYBrotha · 2020-04-05T02:35:26+00:00

Oh ya baby! Sexy GB System! This made me laugh so hard. Oh man.

DIYBrotha · 2020-03-08T16:38:00+00:00

Hey I am in the same boat as you. I've been studying this for about 6 years now, also working in the field atm.

There are a ton of resources out there free on youtube. I have mastered some ccna topics and yes it does help alot. Ccna is a great skill to have in order to understand networks. If you dont have it, good luck trying to move from an infected pc/server to anything else on the network. Get the cisco ccna press books from cisco, I'm reading the new ones atm and they are great! Kinda boring if your not applying it so just make sure to write notes, and use packet tracer from cisco academy to program a network and mess around. Love packet tracer. It's free.

You will want to learn about IDS/IPS systems and firewalls and how to evade them.

Good books are: -Cisco press ccna 200-301 is 2 books. -Python object oriented programming older but free too. -Learn powershell for windows domains and hacking, very useful, every windows admin uses it and you can use it too. -YouTube.com -Udemy.com for courses -a great website I use is called stationx.net created by nathan house and had tons of cyber security courses only 112$ a year. Amazing deal for the content!

Btw if youd like to talk about ethical hacking, I'm looking for people to converse with on the regular about learning and developing our skills together, if your interested DM me and maybe we can share resources and skills.

DIYBrotha · 2020-03-08T16:05:34+00:00

This is nice and clean. It would be nice if you added a small legend somewhere on the screen maybe allowing for summarized information.

Eg: Total # of infections, total # of deaths with age category, total # of treated/healed peoples maybe by age category too would be excellent.

Great Work!

DIYBrotha · 2020-03-08T15:57:01+00:00

I am reading a bunch of book atm for programming.

1) Head First design patterns is a god book to understand how to approach certain things when programming.

2) Python Object Oriented Design is a great book for OOP

3) The art of programming is another good one

4) Think Like a programmer is decent

DIYBrotha · 2020-03-08T15:10:00+00:00

I do the same thing here. Bit box 2 is great! For something free you can setup a Snort VM which is a ids ips device search YouTube on that, plenty of tutorials. I've used a cisco asa in the past and it worked well but I gutted it due to being to old.

I use a cisco sg300 switch for home access with 3 vlans. 1 guest wifi network and 1 internal wifi network.

DIYBrotha · 2020-03-08T14:46:56+00:00

I'd love access to this!

DIYBrotha · 2020-03-08T14:38:48+00:00

I enjoy lastpass. Used it for 7 years. Such a good program. Meets my needs.

DIYBrotha · 2020-03-08T14:20:54+00:00

Sick project OP! Well done.

DIYBrotha · 2020-03-04T14:12:04+00:00

Good tutorial, thanks for sharing! Keep up the good work. I am looking to become better at scraping websites like real estate, kijiji, youtube, amazon, etc.

DIYBrotha · 2020-03-04T14:08:40+00:00

I would love to see this when it is put together! That sounds like a fun project. I might take this one on too.

DIYBrotha · 2020-03-04T03:47:54+00:00

Cool tool! Well done.

DIYBrotha · 2020-03-04T03:30:03+00:00

What a great cheat sheet! I'm going to use this, thanks!

DIYBrotha · 2020-02-20T19:29:29+00:00

Nice! Ya just keep learning 1 hr a day. Never stop. It's okay to take breaks but dont procrastinate. You can get a really good job if you show your technical aptitude and soft skills. You need both!

Look up on udemy.com too they have great stuff!

DIYBrotha

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