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Introduce Yourself & Tell Us How We Can Help You Succeed in Cybersecurity!
Hello Cyber Seekers! This online Community of Practice [and learning] exists to serve your cybersecurity support needs! Our focus is on enabling your success in cybersecurity and partnering with you to identify and provide what each of you need to succeed! Tell us about the support, information, knowledge, skill, training and experience gaps you're facing, and we will do our best to help you out!
This community is being built "by you" and "for you" with help from "others like you" to serve the needs of anyone seeking support, information, advice, encouragement or experience related to building cyber skills, starting your cybersecurity career or preparing for cybersecurity certifications. We want this platform to become the place you go "get" and "give" the support needed to "Help Each Other Succeed in Cybersecurity"!
To help us provide greater value to you, please share what you are looking to get [or give] during your time in this community.
- Where are you on your cybersecurity journey? What is your Current Role? [i.e. student, IT Professional, IT Educator, IT Recruiter, etc.]
- What is your current Cybersecurity Goal? [i.e.skill-building, Security+ certification or prep for specific job role, etc.]
- What do you NEED the most "from us" to help you succeed? [i.e. content, resources, courses or support]?
- What would you like to do to help others succeed in cybersec? [i.e. blog post, create How-To guides, create challenges, etc.?
Thank you for sharing with us!
Cybr TeamThanks
Welcome to the community, @MrSagarBedi ! We'd love to learn more about your learning goals -- are you looking to get certified? Learn specific skills?
Hello my name is Eric and I just signed up after watching one of your awesome videos on sql injection. I am a full time student but first a husband and father. This is my second career as I was injured and couldn't continue with my first which was in law enforcement. I am almost finished with about 3 years of school but is not the same as you would think as my community college has a special program with a local university which allows me to complete my third year at the community college level then go on to the university level and finish up 1 year and get my bachelors in cybersecurity. I love ethical hacking specifically webapp and malware analysis. My biggest expectation is to find some direction and help as I move forward. It's overwhelming the amount of information and resources to sift through and I often find myself on rabbit trails. I would then love to give back to this community by sharing some of the projects I had difficulty with in school. I've written a few tutorials but still have a long way to go. I'm trying to focus on programming, networking, and webapp pentesting. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Welcome, @sechvn ! We're glad to have you here and we look forward to helping you find your path! It can definitely be an overwhelming field because there's so much going on, so much to learn, and so many possible directions. Let's keep the dialog open and take it one step at a time, and you'll find your footing in no time :-)
I'd personally love to hear about some of the projects you had difficulty with in school, and I have no doubt others would benefit from it too.
You mentioned having written a few tutorials -- have you posted them publicly? If so, I would love to take a look. Otherwise, we'd love to have you consider posting them on our blog, since they could help others in similar shoes!
Thank you so much for the insight and I think it would be awesome to connect with you especially for my brother. He is currently developing a keylogger and has already created a website utilizing python flask. He is also a wiz with networking. But he is very discouraged and has had several interviews with no results. The labs that I had the most trouble with was actually configuring Burp. I ended up figuring everything out and wrote two tutorials on Burp and Ettercap. Haven't shared them publicly but have no problem sharing them with you. I used Microsoft word to create both please let me know how I can get them to you.
The other task that I had an extremely difficult time with was setting up a pentesting lab utilizing vmware workstation. I have since set up multiple virtual pentesting labs. One of the main issues were trying to understand the virtual networking aspect. The most current lab I have set up uses pfsense to distribute IP's within lan segments to my VM's. I have a DC with another server instance and two windows machines and a kali machine. One of the issues was understanding that in order for vmware workstation to use the bridge setting on a laptop wirelessly is you have to go into network editor and set the bridge adapter to your wireless adapter and not automatic. But I would say that setting up these labs were probably the most challenging in that a lot of tutorials don't cover virtual networking. Vmware has extensive documentation but when your using wireless via a laptop it gets tricky. I think the community for students could really use an in depth series on setting up realistic pentesting labs and utilizing pfsense. Another crucial area that I have not seen covered really well is the area of setting up honeypots and using for example the onion security VM that has tools to analyze the traffic coming into the honeypot like snort. There are some but I know for myself it really isn't covered well enough to feel comfortable running a honeypot. Sorry to ramble on I just think the way you explain things is amazing and so many students would benefit from your instruction in some of these areas.
Hi community!! I'm here out of sheer curiosity about the SQL injection attacks....The course is very useful and love the detailed presentations. Thank you!
Welcome @kripar and thank you! We're glad to have you here.
Let us know if you have any questions about the SQL injections course. By the way, we've just recently added an OS Command injections section to that course, so check that out!
We learn from you and your team thanks for this keep teaching
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Thank you! We'll definitely keep at it :-)
Hi!
I joined after watching a video where Shannon Morse recommended your course on XSS. Looking forward to learning some stuff and getting better with my XSS knowledge.
Welcome Steven! Shannon is awesome - glad you found her video useful! Definitely looking forward to having you go through the XSS course, and I can't wait to hear your feedback :-)
Hi, My name is Nigel Murphy. find this through Shannon Morse. I am a IT professional mainly a generalist in the field. Just looking for another place to talk and learn.
Hey Nigel, we met through Discord but wanted to welcome you again through here and say hello! Glad to have you!
Hello Shawna and everyone else in this community,
I am new here, currently work as an IT Specialist for a big Immigration Law firm in San Antonio, as well as attend graduate school for my masters in Cybersecurity. I would like to get more hands on supplemental training as well as network with y’all here. Hope to make new friends here. See you on the boards!
Hi Gerso, and welcome to the community! Glad to have you here. What kinds of training are you primarily interested in? Any ideas on what roles you're looking to head towards, or still figuring that out?
Hi, my name is Per Arne and I am lecturing on Digital Preparedness and Introduction to Cyber Security at Nord University Business School, Norway. I joined CYBR to learn more as well as participating in discussion how to reach “hearts and minds” in order to increase security awareness.
Best regards
Per Arne Godejord
Senior Lecturer
https://www.nord.no/en/employees/per-arne-godejordHi @Godejord , and welcome to the Cybr community! Can't wait to hear & see more of your thoughts on how we can increase security awareness!
Hello!!
Thank you for having this awesome forum. I have been going through the videos, but towards the tutorial point in the OWASP and ZAP, I could not move forward in the HUD tutorial " BREak"; I Can't seem to change the numbers to ZAp and move forward. Can someone help in the most concise and detailed way possible thank you!
I found the HUD break functionality to be a bit janky at times, so I usually just use ZAP without the HUD. To do that, make sure ZAP is open, navigate to the page where you'll want to set up a break point, then click on the green circle in ZAP, which will make it turn red. Then, complete your action (like trying to submit a form, for example), and ZAP will pause the action until you step through each request & response. The way to step through is to click on the play-looking button next to the green circle until you get to the request/response you're interested in. At that point, you can modify the request directly from ZAP.
Let me know if this doesn't make sense and I can send over a quick video showing it!
Hi, My Name is Shamim from Newyork city, New York. Recently completed the 13th month-long Cyber Security Bootcamp from New York University. Having a job with a new york city project under a private company as a SOC Analyst. Still looking at Cyber Security Solutions for cloud infrastructure. Need your advice.
Welcome to the community, Shamim! And congrats on not only completing the BootCamp but also landing a position. That's awesome! In terms of this: "Still looking at Cyber Security Solutions for cloud infrastructure. Need your advice." Can you provide more details as to what you mean by solutions for cloud infrastructure? What are you trying to solve specifically?
Hi everyone my name is Julito Razon from Philippines I'm 18 yrs old i want to learn more about cybersecurity can you guide me ware to start thankyou.😀
Hi Julito! Welcome to the community and congrats on deciding to pursue cybersecurity! Hop on over to our Discord community so we can better help :)
- Where are you on your cybersecurity journey? What is your Current Role?
- I have a strong interest in Cybersecurity but I'm not working in this field. I mostly do CTF for the past 6 months. I'm curious and I try to learn stuff from different sources.
- What is your current Cybersecurity Goal?
I am currently spending most of my time on the
Pentester Path on Academy.HackTheBox.com. I am also doing some training on AWS Skill builder.
- What do you NEED the most “from us” to help you succeed?
At the moment, I want to do small courses. I'm not ready yet to enroll myself in a long learning path toward certification. I may try the AWS Certified Practitioner since their courses are good quality and very low cost.
- What would you like to do to help others succeed in cybersec?
I have taken the habit of documenting everything I do and collecting a lot of documentation. English is not my first language, I did not share my work to this date. But soon, I will put my Obsidian vault on GitHub to show my journey.
I am a big fan of John Hammond's Youtube channel. He's advocating to show the work I do and to put my name out there.
My name is Tyler from Texas, US. Wanna learn more about cybersecurity, vpn, proxies, and lots of things.
Thanks for the opportunity to learn new and useful material in security !
Glad to have you here!!
My name is Tisunge , i am from Malawi Africa but meanwhile i am in india. Looking forward to learning more about what cybersecurity is all about and what i can do with the knowledge i will acquire from this site.
Welcome!
Call me Iceberg!
I'm so much in network/information security. I'm working on earning my AWS SCS-C02 soon.
Love to share tech topics and learn from everybody.Cheers!😌
Welcome to the community!
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Hello everyone, very excited to be on this fantastic platform! Im currently changing careers to Cybersecurity and I am interested in both the Network Security side of things and software - mainly python. I am studying for the CCNA and the Palo alto entry level cert at the moment and think a great place to start here is with this cloud course - Introduction to AWS Security. Do you think that is a good place to start as a beginner to Cloud and AWS? Thank you
Hey! Welcome to the community. We usually recommend the Introduction to AWS Security if you already have at least a little bit of prior AWS experience. It is *not* an Introduction to AWS itself; it's an introduction to securing AWS environments and understanding common issues as well as commonly used AWS-native security services. If you don't already have an AWS account set up, and you've messed around a bit, then you will be missing some important context. Hope this makes sense!
Hello All, My name is James and I have always been a tech lover. I used to do a lot of pcs and phones and even game systems back in the day. I recently got back into IT and tech and general 2 years ago after my divorce. My ex wife always had a problem with me being around technology too much which caused me to fall off for over a decade. Now I'm interested in cyber security and trying to learn as much as I can. I was recently in school to attain my bachelors for cybersecurity but decided to withdraw as there is a plethora of information I can get for free and if needed I can return to school to get that BS in cyber. So wish me luck as I'm doing this to give me and my kids a better life as a single father doing what he can.
Good luck James! You got this!
Hi my name Ricardo Newman and i have over over fifteen years of experience in Information Technology and Cyber Security across various industries (including Government, Military, Insurance, Education, Banking, Health etc). I have an extensive list of industry-recognized Cyber Security certifications, including CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CISA, C|EH, C|HFI, PMP, CCNP (Routing & Switching, Design & Security), VMWare etc. Moreover, he is an esteemed Architect in major cloud providers, such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.
I am here to check out these amazing labs and to contribute to this community.
I can be contacted here for any additional support 1-2-1 support < link removed by mods -- LinkedIn link is OK but please don't share calendar links as we don't know who you are :) >
Alternatively ping me a message on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ricardo-newman-72a3a023
Thanks Everyone!
Hello! My name is Kwai Hopkins! I have been in IT Field for about 5 years now. I am currently Azure Cloud Admin for my company. recently I have expressed a passion for cloud security. to be honest I got bored of provisioning cloud resources. I want to learn to better protect those resources. I am excited to meet and learn so much from everyone.
Hi everyone, my name is Jennifer, I am currently an AWS Solutions Architect with a services company. I have been working with AWS for about 4 years. I have been studying cybersecurity for 9 months and gravitated towards pentesting. I recently asked my boss if I can work on AWS Pentesting in hopes to offer that service to our customers and he loved the idea and is going to reimburse me for my year sub :)
I hope to learn a lot and enough to start up a new team.
That's awesome! Welcome to the community, Jennifer. We are a lot more active on Discord than here, so I would recommend joining there if you haven't already (https://cybr.com/discord). Gotta love it when employers help cover cost of training :)!
My name is Courage and I started this journey last year November, I would love a roadmap on security analyst
ello everyone,
I recently signed up for this course after watching a captivating video on application security. Allow me to introduce myself: I am an Application Security Engineer with three years of experience working for a healthcare company. When I began my journey in this role, I had no idea what application security entailed, and unfortunately, I received no formal training. As a result, my work has largely been a process of trial and error.
My background in programming is quite limited, consisting mainly of self-paced classes that I have undertaken in my spare time. Despite these challenges, my commitment to learning and improving my skill set remains steadfast. I am particularly interested in understanding what to look for when securing an architectural design document, conducting secure code reviews, and developing a secure architecture design document.
Specifically, I am seeking to learn:
- What questions should I be asking during application security reviews?
- What steps should I take to develop a secure architecture design document?
- How should I conduct secure code reviews?
- What should I be looking for in the code to ensure security?
Moreover, I would like to gather resources and content that can guide me through these processes. This includes understanding the best practices, tools, and methodologies that are critical in application security.
One of my goals is to create How-To guides for developers with no security background, helping them understand and implement security measures effectively. Additionally, I aim to improve my communication with developers, ensuring that security considerations are integrated seamlessly into the development process.
I am eager to learn from this course and from all of you, to better secure applications and contribute more effectively to my organization. I look forward to sharing my knowledge and helping others succeed in the field of application security.
Thank you for having me here.
Hello, my name is Chez. I'm brand new to cybersecurity and am pivoting from a career in manufacturing engineering. I have assisted in ISO audits for some of my previous employers. I recently started consuming cybersecurity content and am intrigued by the field.
Hello, I am excited to join this community. I am hoping to land a job as a SOC analyst and have been in IT for a few years, with a knowledge of networking and lightly dipped my toe into http and some programming languages. I'm trying to find a platform that walks me through what I need to know a little different than the capture the flags like HTB, and Lets Defend. I'm hoping for something that can give me a good conceptual view to make it easier to grasp the nitty gritty details
- Where are you on your cybersecurity journey? What is your Current Role? [i.e. student, IT Professional, IT Educator, IT Recruiter, etc.]
- What is your current Cybersecurity Goal? [i.e.skill-building, Security+ certification or prep for specific job role, etc.]
- What do you NEED the most “from us” to help you succeed? [i.e. content, resources, courses or support]?
- What would you like to do to help others succeed in cybersec? [i.e. blog post, create How-To guides, create challenges, etc.?
Shawna