Cyber Security is a huge field, let's talk about the three main teams 🔵🟣🔴
🔵Blue Team: Responsible for defense and monitoring and analyzing
🟣Purple Team: Responsible for making sure red and blue are working effectively
🔴Red Team: responsible for simulating evil hackers
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I recommend checking this to learn more about the different careers you can have in cyber security tryhackme.com/room/careersin…
Now for the important question, how can you start your cyber security journey?
There is stuff you gonna need to learn no matter which career you choose
you can either study for the @CompTIA A+ Certification or the Google IT Support Specialization from @coursera (if you decide to study both they will give you a special digital badge)
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The Google IT Support Professional Certificate consists of 5 courses which are
🔹Technical Support Fundamentals
🔹The Bits and Bytes of Computer Networking
🔹Operating Systems and You: Becoming a Power User
🔹System Administration and IT Infrastructure Services
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🔹IT Security: Defense against the digital dark arts
(You can apply for financial aid if you can't afford it) coursera.org/professional-c…
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🔻The CompTIA A+ teaches you about 👇
for more details check their website comptia.org/certifications…
I didnt talk about the prices because its okay if you cant afford it the most important thing is to learn having certificates can help you in getting interviews more easily tho
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After you know the basics I really recommend taking the security + exam from @CompTIA after that I think you will be ready to study stuff in the career you chose (yes its a long journey but I promise you will have so much fun)
Now I have a few tips for you
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🔹Be Humble
🔹Always use google before you ask questions
🔹Ask a lot of questions and be curious👆
🔹Take care of your physical and mental health
🔹Make sure you have a social presence
Good luck💙
(feel free to dm me if you have any questions)
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🚨LEARNING TIME #2🚨
🔴As Mr. @Amr_Thabet always says nothing is better than studying the real attacks, it's what we are trying to protect companies from after all
🧵In this thread we will learn how to study those attacks #CyberAttack#CyberSecurity#redteaming#Pentesting
🔴Why you should study the real cyber-attacks?
Because they usually use their own tools and malware so it doesn't have a signature, and because that's what we are trying to protect companies from
now let's see how can we study those attacks?
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🔴How can we study the real attacks?
By reading blogs and by simulating those attacks on your home lab
(i will write a blog about that @hacktoria so make sure you follow their account) here are some resources
🔺@TheDFIRReport
🔺attack.mitre.org by @MITREattack
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🚨LEARNING TIME🚨
🟣What is social engineering and why is it so powerful?
According to PhishMe Social engineering scams stole over $5 billion worldwide from 2013-2016.
But why?!! Lets find out ...
🧵 #CyberSecurity#Scam#informationsecurity
👨🏻🔧According to Wikipedia
social engineering is the psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. This differs from social engineering within the social sciences, which does not concern the divulging of confidential information
In simple words it is hacking the human brain 🧠
🟠Example
"Do you know that if you wrote your password in the comments, twitter will automatically turn the last 4 letters to *** "
Here we hack curiosity, you dont know how many times people believed this and wrote there password