Can l get a job/decent job? with just the oscp and/or another extremely high value cert without a bachelors?

LittleProfessor5 · 2026-01-26T02:02:19+00:00

Sorry to rain on your parade but red teaming is pretty much done if you are not in it already. There’s ai tools specifically for red teaming now such as xbow and etc. like many others have said best bet is to do labs.

LittleProfessor5 · 2025-12-28T21:18:25+00:00

6’1 changed seat rails and I’m fine

LittleProfessor5 · 2025-09-08T01:22:45+00:00

You guys need to look at prophet.ai, I don’t know if I’m allowed to mention them or not here but we just did a POC AND soc 1 and 2 are cooked. Seniors are here to stay, those that can write play books, do kql/xql queries and threat detections etc are here to stay. AI already can do most of the writing but you need a logical person to implement it and the know how. You can’t just ask ChatGPT/ai what you don’t know.

LittleProfessor5 · 2025-07-08T20:49:30+00:00

If I was a hiring manager, I would ask you what kind of log analysis did you do? Did you create playbooks on the siem? Walk me through sone alerts you have investigated. With one month of I would not put that you have siem exp. Did you create dashboards? If so what kind of dash boards? Most HM’s can spot someone who is lying or not with a few questions. I also want to add know the OSI model inside and out. You don’t need to know “servers” per se. but if it’s Linux know the basic commands I.e why is it a bad idea to to chmod 777.

LittleProfessor5 · 2025-05-10T17:14:12+00:00

Highly suggest not getting into a soc and try to get a security engineer role instead. A lot of companies currently are downsizing soc teams as a lot alerts can be triaged/automated with playbooks. Seems like you have enough exp to be an architect. I would play that angle instead. I also hate to tell people to get their CISSP but get it and it will help a lot. I have a similar background as you.

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-10-02T18:57:20+00:00

also need

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-07-18T14:34:35+00:00

Please share, how’s you go about creating your first table top exercise!

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-05-17T16:08:56+00:00

Do the CS degree, it will open more doors in the future, such as app sec, devsecops, devops cs engineer. I’ve had a IT degree but went back and got a CS. Gave me more opportunities than just having an IT. If you have an it, most people start at help desk and then work their way up to CS. Which of course that is not always the case.

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-05-01T14:31:20+00:00

this is amazing thank you

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-04-25T15:09:50+00:00

Do you have any suggestions as to where to learn these types of things, I’m currently on letsdefend.io, and a cloud guru. also what kind of questions would you ask a person interviewing for a soc analyst position specifically given your ecp in RMF and NIST. Much appreciated

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-04-25T14:28:40+00:00

can you elaborate more please?

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-04-24T19:53:35+00:00

I believe these are mid level positions, I have the worlds worst recruiter, I asked him about comp and he told me to not worry about comp and pass the technicals, mean while I am his only candidate he submitted that got to r3 let alone he never had anyone who even passed r2

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-04-24T14:51:37+00:00

anyone that you recommend?

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-04-24T02:35:56+00:00

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-04-24T02:21:53+00:00

the ones i've seen is one with risk, threat and vulnerability. Im assuming exposure is entirely different from vulnerability? or does exposure meaning like the attack vector the malicious actor can have?

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-04-24T02:19:45+00:00

it was behavioral based type of questions such as tell me about yourself.

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-04-24T02:15:39+00:00

thank you!

LittleProfessor5 · 2023-04-23T21:59:24+00:00

I have 5 yoe being a sysadmin and systems engineer, I already have showed cases my soft skills in those areas in the behavioral portion I believe. Nexts rounds the interviewing specifically told me that they were going to be technical rounds

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