When learning complex subjects with a large range of variety it can often be overwhelming to find what you need to learn in order to get “good” at your chosen discipline. Many discussions center around advice such as you need to know “everything” or other unhelpful, unspecific outlines. I’ve made an infosec mind map for my own learning which I hope you find useful. The purpose of this is to break down different topics into bite sized chunks of learning. By bite sized it may still take you a week or two to get a handle on any one topic within the map, but if you can successfully check off each item you should have a good handle on each discipline listed.
So you want to be a Hacker?
Recently I’ve been reading a ton of questions, posts and general discussion about getting into the ‘Information Security’ game, and in my opinion at least it’s typically followed up by a fair amount of misleading information. That might be a little harsh considering I’m sure it’s good intentioned, it’s also even possible that the advice worked for them (there is no one size fits all advice) but I thought I’d lay my thoughts out here in the hope of helping a new budding hacker move forward.
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