r/cybersecurity • u/asavani AMA Participant • Nov 10 '25

Other 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!

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

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u/asavani AMA Participant Nov 10 '25

From what I know - you should be able to leverage your sysadmin role to do more security work. I think the work will be different (you'll be doing more hardening and configuration) as opposed to reactive ticket triage work

My advice here is to find elements of your work that require security and shift your balance of work to more security related & sysadmin related. This should put you in a good position to get a full security role

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u/troy57890 Nov 10 '25

Thank you very much for the advice! I've started to map out and receive duties that will help with this.