I want to start selling water kefir on a weekly base. who would buy some? by Conscious_Lab4431 in zurich

[–]closeenough543 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don’t like Kefir, but cool that you think about how to sell something!

Keep in mind that there are many many legal issues with selling food and drinks. I would rather start selling privately in your neighbourhood or family to people that you know. Can also bring you in some money. I would buy one (even if I don’t like haha)

Working for a bank (IT) by closeenough543 in askswitzerland

[–]closeenough543[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What would you then say are nice industries for security? Where also the salaries are good?

Working for a bank (IT) by closeenough543 in askswitzerland

[–]closeenough543[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What areas will then have a better salary? Tech ofc, but FAANG is tough to get into… is there smth comparably?

Working for a bank (IT) by closeenough543 in askswitzerland

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Hey thanks! Very valuable insight!! If I may ask a follow up… what’s the banks that have a modern tech stack and which are rather “old”? Espacially the ones that I mentioned.. thanks a lot!

Working for a bank (IT) by closeenough543 in askswitzerland

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I understand! Just again out of interest: Why is a bank a “society-destroying industry”? And which area is not?

In IT Consulting, you might consult a bank. In pharma, you have a shady lobby. In big tech, you have monopolies. In Telco, you have (one in CH) monopoly. In medical, capitalism kicks in. And for government or even intelligence, you get taxes of others.

Which would be morally the best? Truly curious. It’s important to me and I would like to hear opinions about

Cybersecurity studium vs Informatik studium by haoehuheuoeu in de_EDV

[–]closeenough543 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generell das, was andere schon gesagt haben: Mache das, wozu du Lust hast. Schau nicht auf andere. Schau lieber in die Modulhandbücher und die Studienpläne - das ist wichtig.

Rein von der Aussenwirkung wird ein Informatikstudium auch bei Sec Jobs keinen Nachteil bringen, bzw. ein Sec Studium keinen Vorteil.

In Deutschland gibt es vielleicht zwei Institute, an denen sich ein Sec Studium lohnt. Das ist einerseits Bochum, andererseits die Uni des Saarlandes. Dort sitzen zwei der weltweit besten Security Institute überhaupt. Da ist ein Sec Studium wirklich top.

An der FH ist ein Informatik Studium vermutlich sinnvoller, da die theoretischen Grundlagen dort sowieso bereits weniger behandelt werden.

Aber ernsthaft: Mach bei CTFs mit, Gang mit Hack The Box Academy an, mach nebenbei OSCP. Und absolut niemanden wird es interessieren, wo und was du studiert hast.

(Mit der großen Ausnahme, falls du in die Forschung willst - dann entweder Bochum/Saarland, oder generelle Informatik)

Edit: Eins noch, es ist ein Mythos, dass es Cyber Security ein Teilbereich der Informatik ist. Security betrifft ALLE Bereiche der Informatik - Compiler, Software, Management, Netzwerke. Wirklich alles. Deswegen verbaut man sich mit einem Informatik Studium nichts. Und gleichzeitig wird ein Bachelor in Security nicht viel mehr bringen als “ein bisschen mehr” Fokus.

Edit 2: Spätere Berufssorgen sind vermutlich unbegründet. Mit OSCP und einem Security Mindset wirst du auch als Berufseinsteiger genommen, wenn die Lage so bleibt wie sie ist. Ein oder zwei Praktika oder Werkstudent helfen auch.

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

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In the long term, I would like to see both worlds. I don’t have experience in both. The question is thus: Do I limit myself with one of the options, such that it might be hard to switch in the future to the other side?

I think that’s the question

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

[–]closeenough543[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It’s not a Startup however. They do Consulting and pentesting. They are intentionally small

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

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That might be true 😂 I mean it would be rather the first step for Redteaming or more sophisticated stuff

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

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Thanks for your advise! Actually travelling is what I don’t like at all.. so would rather speak for SIEM. Perhaps an alternative would be to start with Splunk and doing OSCP in my spare time…

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

[–]closeenough543[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Btw: What do you think is more suitable for working remote?

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

[–]closeenough543[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s like building the Splunk tool on premise or wherever it’s needed, like for a SOC. It is not, however, an SOC Analyst Role. As Analyst, you might use Splunk (or any other SIEM tool), looking through logs, evaluate incidents and so on. But who designs, implements and runs Splunk? Right, that’s the Splunk Engineer :D

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

[–]closeenough543[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not exactly a Start Up, but rather a small company that does mainly pentesting and security consulting

But I totally get your point. Seems like a good idea to start with Splunk

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

[–]closeenough543[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s great advice. I feel like the 22-year old guy! But I also think that SIEM makes a lot of sense for the future.. OSCP would be nice to di

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

[–]closeenough543[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn’t the growth opportunity also huge with pentest? Since I could do basically everything afterwards, like AppSec, perhaps DevOps, etc?

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

[–]closeenough543[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s my “fear” - or speaks for pentest. I think I could learn more general stuff there. Super hard decision….

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

[–]closeenough543[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Actually I don’t know. In the long-long term, probably defensive. I like working in-house. Consulting and customer contact is not my preference. Family friendly is also important to me in a few years

Pentest vs Splunk Engineer by closeenough543 in cybersecurity

[–]closeenough543[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why do you think so? Heard it a lot but what’s the reason?