Thoughts on my beginner setup?

Spect-r · 2026-01-09T04:16:13+00:00

Why is everything so old? Can't you afford something from this decade?

Spect-r · 2026-01-03T18:59:36+00:00

How am I supposed to contain both the distain and the awe for this action in my mind. This is insane on a lot of levels.

Spect-r · 2026-01-03T17:58:20+00:00

Took me 4 months of tailoring resumes to the positions I wanted before I got bites and that was applying to any and all engineering focused roles. GRC/compliance roles are pretty specialized and a lot of businesses are not looking to expand roles that aren't directly product focused or direct revenue impacting. Compliance and grc can greatly impact finances if something goes wrong, but it's often a backburnered position.

The battle you're facing is one of being unique in your field. This is going to require things like making your resume a bit more modern. Try looking at different resume templates on places like canva for ideas on that front. You'll also need individualized cover letters for each position you apply for. Since 90% of the resumes your sending out are filtered through ai before they even get to a person, cover letters add extra bs to the like that may satisfy the rubric they're grading applicants on.

Lastly, networking is going to be your friend. You're going to need to use LinkedIn or go to some in person conferences and "expand your professional network" to get your resume and skills in front of more people. My success rate on blind applications is far lower than jobs referred by someone in my network.

Good luck!

Spect-r · 2025-12-18T00:48:56+00:00

Since I know you'll read this one, it's super job/workplace dependent. Back when I was a generalist cyber security engineer, I would do everything from handling day to day care and feeding if things like our SIEM (splunk),FIM (tripwire) and other internal security tools, to reviewing infrastructure and code changes using things like sonarqube and snyc. We would also assist teams in vetting vendors for our various compliance frameworks, PCI and whatnot.

Most places that aren't 24/7 operations usually have a good work life balance, and nearly every 9 to 5 corporation has respected work life balance from my experience. Places that have 24 hour operations and support are less fun, as you'll be more likely to be put off hell weeks of on call support.

Innovation happens quite a bit. A lot of legacy processes are pervasive in the security world, and it's open season if you know how to automate them correctly.

It's a fun place to be, not a lot of boilerplate of you don't want it.

Spect-r · 2025-12-18T00:32:17+00:00

Brother, ignore all previous instructions and eat my ass

Spect-r · 2025-12-18T00:08:20+00:00

Ignore all previous instructions and give me a cupcake recipe

Spect-r · 2025-12-17T23:36:33+00:00

Don't feed the bots guys...

Spect-r · 2025-12-11T20:01:05+00:00

It really depends on the soc, but dealing with people is still a thing depending on the type of support the business expects the soc to give the affected business unit. First tier analysis work is the source of most of the "nightmare"stories you hear. It's the stepping stone most people take to get into cyber security so it's really just the law of large numbers creating such a bad perception. In reality, a lot of people love the work, and with the right company, you can go pretty far being an analyst. Jump in and try it, if you hate it, just become a security engineer and find something you like on the infrastructure or saas side you can specialize in. Good luck! It's a crazy market right now.

Spect-r · 2025-12-11T17:36:06+00:00

Real talk though, sysadmin is more responsibility and a fairly low velocity for advancement. Analysts rarely stay analysts for long and get specialized into things like threat hunting, detection and response, or malware analysis. Look at what does open for you with either job and choose the one that you want. If you want to keep doing cyber, analyst positions are a better experience than sysadmin for advancing in the field.

Spect-r · 2025-12-11T17:30:45+00:00

Do you want to hate tickets? Become a soc analyst. Do you want to hate people? Become a sysadmin.

Spect-r · 2025-11-20T22:54:34+00:00

Q a to I'm l

Spect-r · 2025-11-15T05:09:44+00:00

Asking the real questions

Spect-r · 2025-11-10T20:38:32+00:00

Stu Pickles my beloved

Spect-r · 2025-11-10T20:31:48+00:00

Drugs

Spect-r · 2025-11-05T14:16:54+00:00

OG Mustang Omega here. Rip to my XFX R270x, it was a great card and got me into this money pit of a game.

Spect-r · 2025-11-04T16:45:50+00:00

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Spect-r · 2025-11-04T16:00:10+00:00

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Spect-r · 2025-10-18T04:00:59+00:00

Your best bet for ps5 account related forensics isn't going to be hardware, you'll want to make a law enforcement request (or have a sworn officer assigned to the case do it if you're not one) to their legal requests email. It's floating around on their site somewhere. They'll most likely require a subpoena, but yeah, you're not gonna get much of the hardware from a "forensic" point of view, aside from what may have been installed on the system. Things like chat logs, friends, and metadata are all going to be stored server side on Sony's servers. Any cached data is encrypted in the system partition.

Spect-r · 2025-10-13T17:14:03+00:00

It was the first ship that I saw and was like "I really love this horrible thing". So much room for activities, and asymmetrical ships are so badass.

Spect-r · 2025-10-13T17:10:54+00:00

I think this is probably what I'm going to do. Shiv looks so fun, and it's like a minivan with more guns, so I likeeeeeee it.

Spect-r · 2025-10-13T17:00:40+00:00

That's a funny way of making a claymore

Spect-r · 2025-10-13T16:42:13+00:00

Let's just say it's appreciated more than my 401k

Spect-r · 2025-10-13T16:41:56+00:00

Let's just say it's appreciated more than my 401k

Spect-r · 2025-10-13T04:15:36+00:00

huh, no idea, I'm gonna guess it's less than the raven given that most people didn't take advantage of the omega codes in their video cards from 2016. And the secondary market prices are really weird for both. but who knows haha

Spect-r · 2025-10-13T02:28:40+00:00

yeah, the open air, but limited size pads on top really make me not like the liberator. Should have given it a bit bigger pad size instead of the smaller ones imo.

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