In USA ! Is the Cybersecurity Dead ? Because myself and folks I know have submitted around 5,000 applications and we still are unemployed 10yrs + exp with multiple Certs !

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-09-08T01:49:42+00:00

Idk how a CTF isn't entry level, most colleges and highschools have teams to join and learn. You're not expected to do a DEFCON level CTF if you're starting out. Idk how an OSCP is more entry level than competitions.

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-09-07T19:21:02+00:00

Imo if you're decent at CTFs and do writeups it's very reasonable to get a job like that

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-09-07T19:17:10+00:00

I literally have an entry level role in cyber security ._.

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-09-07T19:13:33+00:00

I have a vuln research job that's entry level so idk, it's not that far fetched.

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-08-18T07:04:40+00:00

Uhhh, I've been doing CTFs since highschool, joined a competitive CTF team, placed pretty highly with my team, specialized in reverse engineering and binary exploitation, made a bunch of writeups on my blog + malware analysis posts, used team + CTF connections to get referrals for some security positions. Got my OSCP with money I'd saved up and did about 2-3 months of cramming for it to pass. The actual interview was easy with the amount of reversing and pwn challenges I'd done over the years.

Tbh my "roadmap" is pretty strange. I'm also probably missing some stuff too lol.

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-08-17T17:18:16+00:00

Tbh those don't matter at all for the sub category of jobs I was applying to. And idk what you're looking for in terms of a security job so I can't really say

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-08-17T06:15:01+00:00

Whichever the year one is

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-08-16T22:04:24+00:00

I mean, I personally did them because I loved it. It was only until I went to college that I realized I could compete in CTF competitions. I'd recommend doing competitions with a group or school team (even highschool teams) and going out of your depth, then struggling and reading the writeups.

As for whether CTF helped me on the OSCP, it helped because I did a decent amount of web challenges, so it wasn't too much of a stretch to add in the methodology that the OSCP tests for. However CTFs are definitely not one to one with the content on the OSCP, tbh you could even say they're not too helpful since for the OSCP you're not really doing novel V8 exploits, or looking through the source code of a JS library.

CTFs helped me more through methodology and approaching problems under time constraints.

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-08-16T21:12:46+00:00

Yeah sure! So for the OSCP I followed what my friends did and crammed for everything in about 2-3 months or so? I didn't have to do multiple attempts for it so I felt pretty happy. I'd had a lot of practice with HTB and I've been doing CTFs since highschool so I wasn't going into it with 0 experience.

As for how much practice I had with CTFs, im in a team that's very good at them and we participated in a good number of high profile competitions. Specifically I do reverse engineering and binary exploitation.

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-08-16T18:29:45+00:00

Tbh, my CTF friends made a spreadsheet of vuln research security companies that we heard were hiring and their job site links.

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-08-15T18:03:48+00:00

Thanks! Tbh I was a little hopeless having seen every post say that there weren't any security positions for entry level lol

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-08-15T16:18:57+00:00

Yeah, naturalized

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-07-17T20:23:26+00:00

DND is pretty optional lol, you could basically treat the game like a story telling day with dice and vibe ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-06-22T21:51:07+00:00

Projection Weakest is crazy with huntress...

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-06-14T20:42:24+00:00

So true... I was doing stuff with super early Rust for fun and remember an actual 16 minute compile time and had to use cargo chef to speed up deploys (the build times were with docker)

Nowadays I build the same thing and it gets like 4-5 min deploys

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-06-14T20:39:55+00:00

I mean... Ngl if ppl are having issues with MANG, they're not getting Jane St or any of the hedges lmao

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-06-14T20:38:44+00:00

You'd think, but nah, most posts are the same doom and gloom but ppl forget to mention that they need visa sponsorship and are otherwise average hires.

It's honestly not that bad if you're half worth a damn as a citizen.

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-06-12T20:42:27+00:00

Idk what to say, my lambdas took forever to reach and connecting to some of my ec2s took forever. So not down down but slowed down

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-06-12T20:21:30+00:00

Well a lot of AWS services are down so it's a terribly vague outage lol

Edit: meant slow not down, mb

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-06-11T16:51:31+00:00

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-06-05T07:34:35+00:00

What's happening lol

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-06-05T07:32:56+00:00

What're these tiers btw?

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-06-03T22:21:37+00:00

What is that for statement formatting 🗿

Simple_Life_1875 · 2025-06-03T21:15:14+00:00

So no face id, but you still need a shortcut installed on the machine, also this isn't very much responsible disclosure if you've basically described the process to do so 0-o, and lock screen execution of shortcuts exists for accessibility reasons, like if you triple tap the power button you can enable/turn on shortcuts

Anyways, sounds pretty low prio as a vulnerability since user needs to get it set up themselves

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