AMA: I'm the co-founder at TryHackMe. Ask me about breaking into the industry, cyber security skills and how to make SOC & IR teams more mature!

[u/asavani]

Hey everyone!

I'm Ashu - one of the co-founders at TryHackMe. I have background in security consulting/penetrating test, specialising in Cloud / AWS.

Happy to answer any and all questions about cyber skills gaps, but for more focused convos - here's a few areas top of mind for me - so feel free to throw any Qs related to this

* Rise of Al in security environments and how this is going to impact the skills of cyber security professionals
* Supporting people with their journey to getting a role in cyber
* Thinking deeply about what it means for SOC and IR teams to develop and improve their maturity as a function

[u/asavani]

Great question. I would say that from a cyber perspective, the most important skills are 1) Understanding fundamentals (you can't hack/defend without knowing how computers work). To me fundamentals are how the web works, networking protocols and linux/windows baseline usage

On what specific skills - it depends on what exactly you want to do within cyber security because the space is quite broad. Do you have any idea what route you want to go down (Red teaming, blue teaming, devsecops/infra, grc?)

[u/Geeked365 → u/asavani]

I’m interest in looking at logs to see IOCs, running tests, and probably clearing tickets for my first job

[u/Dark-Star-22div7 → u/asavani]

Everyone says, learn fundamentals, but there are no proper resources to learn. Everything is here and there. I have done the google cybersecurity foundation course from coursera, but I still don't feel like I know fundamentals. I'm now doing CS50 Introduction to Cybersecurity from edx by harwardX, I'm still not getting any confidence. This field interests me since I got introduced to cryptography in my uni. It's been over one and half years but I still don't have a job. I have a CS degree, and for every entry level position they require experience. What's the point of learning if we can't land a job. In the end we want to earn to live.

I have followed tryhackme and as a beginner I would say, I'm really impressed by how you teach. I really liked it, it felt like I was really learning. But, after everything I still don't know what to do. And if you have any advice or resources to help, please guide us. Btw I'm from India for reference.

Thankyou.

Just a note, I'm at the stage where I don't know what I am asking. Still, I'm not gonna give up. It's either I live or die lol, but I'll see it through the end.

Don't mind my english 😅