How to become a Cybersecurity professional | Ayman Elsawah
Ayman explains that becoming a cybersecurity professional can start from various backgrounds and that the field includes many roles beyond hacking or penetration testing. He suggests leveraging existing skills, such as those from web development or linguistics, and recommends using the NICE framework to explore different cybersecurity positions and find a good fit.
Transcript
Depending on where you're coming from is going to determine like where you're going, and, and where you want to go. So there are so many different, X to being a professional in cybersecurity. So, a lot of times people think working in cybersecurity, you're, hacking web pages all day or network pen tests, but there are so many different parts to the field. So if you're a linguist or if you're a archaeologist or whatever it may be, like you have these different skills you're bringing into the field and, you know, that might map to a different part of the field, say cryptology, cryptography, sorry, cryptography or, you know, even simple as program management or, you know, bug bounty. 1:06 If you're, you know, say you're a web developer, right? Web developer is a really good, A example where like you're a web developer and you want to get into security, you might not necessarily know networking, just pivot on your existing skills. But yeah, like you said before, I agree that, you know, just don't take it so hard. You know, there's a nice framework. So look up the nice framework that kind of lists all the different positions that are out there and you can see the job descriptions and see what's a good fit because as you get, you know, as you're going on any journey, you want to know where the end goal is going to be, right?