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It's a rapidly growing field that has more jobs than people. Meaning, at this point if you have a solid dev background and strong practical skills in security y
by bashwizard 6y ago
It's a rapidly growing field that has more jobs than people. Meaning, at this point if you have a solid dev background and strong practical skills in security you're most likely going to make bank.
While anecdoctally speaking, I know people who switched from senior dev positions at two of the FAANG companies to smaller security companies and basically doubled their income and making north of $500k/year.
- thatcodingdude 6y agoAny way to contact you for learning/career advice ?
- bashwizard 6y agoWhat I can share is my roadmap how I manage to break into the field without any prior professional IT experience. 1) Linux. Learn it and live in it. 2) Linux servers and databases. 3) CompTIA Network+ (only for the knowledge, didn't bother getting the cert) 4) CompTIA Security+ (same as above) 5) OSCP certification (not a golden ticken by any means but it helps to bypass HR) That's basically it. While going down that road I focused on hands-on practice by actually hacking into machines with the help of following resources: A) Hack The box (hackthebox.eu) B) PentesterLab (pentesterlab.com) I also really like Portswigger's Web Security Academy (portswigger.net) and Try Hack Me (tryhackme.com) but they weren't around when I was starting out but I would definitely check them out, especially if I was completely new to security today. All in all it took me roughly a year but get comfortable enough to start applying to junior pentesting positions and eventually I got hired. There are probably better and easier ways to do it but that's how I did it at least.
- thatcodingdude 6y agoThanks a lot !
- 1qazxsw23edc 6y agoNot OP but did you got a remote position after learning and practising all this because I'm interested in only remote positions.
- bashwizard 6y agoI did not get a remote position. I eventually left the company though and started do consulting instead so I'm mostly working remote (and 100% at this point due to covid).
- 1qazxsw23edc 6y agook, thanks.
- dencodev 6y agoHey thanks for this! I'm a senior dev and I just left my job. I'm going to be learning and studying full time but hopefully it doesn't take an entire year before I can get a job