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Of course it depends on your current level of knowledge and your goals. I'd look at syllabi for IT security courses from leading schools as a start, or maybe a
by hackuser 10y ago
Of course it depends on your current level of knowledge and your goals.
I'd look at syllabi for IT security courses from leading schools as a start, or maybe ask a specialist reference librarian at a college or university (after researching the question on your own). There may be a widely accepted IT Security 101 textbook.
If you really want to be a professional computer security expert, you'll need to take courses from experts - the novice lacks the context to interpret the books, to understand them in context (e.g., 'this is one side of a long-running argument'), or to know what gaps they leave (e.g., 'there's a newer theory on this issue', 'this omits a whole field of knowledge', etc.) and to fill them. And you'll need real world experience, of course; learn from and make connections with the best people you can.
- antikythera 10y agoThanks! I'm actually an old-time geek and IETF person, and do some work on security, but would like to get some better grounding. I sometimes find that other security people in the IETF have what appear to me to be naive views on things like usability, and seem to be making the wrong tradeoffs because of that, but they are "better educated" than I am, so figuring out how to become more educated myself is a priority.