Lesley Carhart Oct 8

I guess I haven’t clearly articulated this in writing, but friends do not let friends without substantive IT work experience and/or a credible IT degree take cybersecurity career bootcamps in 2025.

They are up to no good. Shenanigans. Malfeasance. They are not a safe way to get a job.

Show threadLesley Carhart Oct 8
There are certainly good -courses- that can supplement a strong IT foundation and existing experience and credentials. Especially on targeted topics. But if it sounds too good to be true it is. You’re not landing a SOC job on a 6 month bootcamp, these days.
Show threadBiggles 20X6!Oct 8

@hacks4pancakes this week i found out that our local cyber security uni DEGREES do not teach SQLi, HTML or SMTP.

I told my intern to go look up the protocols on ietf.org so they can understand how and why email is a clusterfuck we cannot easily solve, and what a stateless protocol is and what kind of attacks that enables

Show threadLesley Carhart Oct 8
@Taco_lad tbh friends don’t let friends get a cybersecurity degree either over CS or engineering but that’s a different conversation
Show threadBiggles 20X6!
@hacks4pancakes 1000% on board with you, our org has a cybersec internship and I do my damndest to ensure they go away with open eyes.
Oct 8 at 10:11amWeb