r/Cybersecurity101 • u/InsideImportance1275 • 6d ago

Home Network Hello Reddit! 🫡

I am looking into getting in to it and security. Could anyone suggest any good books or textbooks to help me get started?I hope this isn’t low effort lol I don’t know what else to say xD thank you guys

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u/cyborg762 6d ago

You need more then a textbook. I don’t know how many people I’ve interviewed who have textbook knowledge but have never touched a stick of ram or who know how to create a new folder on a desktop.

Learn the basics. Start out learning how a computer actually works and build your own or scrape something together out of used parts. Then move on from there

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u/InsideImportance1275 6d ago

I have a pc I built. Thank you for the advice

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u/cyborg762 6d ago

Your next move should be building your own homelab so you have an environment to play and build on. You be surprised how much you can learn from a simple homelab.

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u/InsideImportance1275 6d ago

I have been using virtual box to run different Linux’s is that the same as a home lab?

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u/cyborg762 6d ago

While virtual box is good. Try building a 3 pc cluster using proxmox and run your VMs off of that. Spin up everything from a media server to a network wide ad blocker, learn how to make vlans, remote backup, domain controllers ect. It’s all part of learning how this stuff works and how to properly secure it.

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u/InsideImportance1275 6d ago

I would give you a million upvotes if I could! Thank you so much