A STARTER/KICK START IN CYBER SECURITY FROM SCRATCH
Isecurion Technology and Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

The demands for the security professionals are increasing as the cyber-attacks are increasing day by day. Cyber security is being updating each and every day with new bugs patches and new discovered zero days.
Career in cyber security is all about solving puzzles solving problems and solving real day to day challenges every day you get to work on different thing and because the technology is updating and you need to get updated every day. Cyber security runs on reputation make your good reputation in the community and you are a go.
Hacking is not what they show us in movies it’s a complete different scenario in the real life .in real life it takes much time and also a lot more effort and creativity. Although creativity is the most needed thing and this is what you need if you want to have a good carrier
Working in cyber security never will get you bored because every day you will come across new works and new challenges.
The moment you stop yourself from updating yourself in InfoSec world that is the moment when you are out of this big InfoSec world
These are the major domains in cyber security –
1. malware analysis
2. web applications security
3. mobile application security
4. cryptography
5. cyber forensics
Being in cyber security is lots of fun, but it’s a kind of fun that takes lots of effort. to be a in the business you have to get a basic thrill from solving problems, sharpening your skills, and exercising your intelligence.
ATTITUDE
Here comes the most important part the attitude of a person in cyber security plays a vital role. The attitude of a person who is looking for a career in cyber security
The attitude should be like The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved.
There is a well-known saying –
To follow the path:
look to the master,
follow the master,
walk with the master,
see through the master,
become the master.
SKILLS
The attitude is vital, but skills are even more vital. Attitude is no substitute for competence, and there’s a certain basic toolkit of skills which you have to have
1. Programming/Scripting — learn how to program this is the basic fundamental thing you should have leaning tools is good but over time new tools come and replaces the old one . Knowing how to program will allow you to create your own tool according to your need. I recommend starting with Python. It is cleanly designed, well documented, and relatively kind to beginners. Learning bash also plays a major role in web application security if you know to read the codes what it’s doing is also good writing is not that much important . . Nowadays, with all the point and click programs out there, you can be a fairly good ethical hacker without knowing any programming.
2. Networking — knowledge about networking is a must when you are working with web application security the flow of packets .in order to exploit it we need to know how the things actually work.
3. Linux — developing Linux skills is must when you are in web application security nearly all the tools we use works on Linux. Linux gives user the capability most of the operating system don’t. most of the server in the world use Linux
CULTURE
InfoSec culture is completely different. Like most cultures without a money economy, InfoSec runs on reputation. You gain status and reputation in it not by dominating other people, nor by having things other people want, but rather by giving things away. Specifically, by giving away your time, your creativity, and the results of your skill.
1. Focus on writing open source software — it will eventually increase your skillset most reputed people in this domain have written large, capable programs that met a widespread need and given them away, so that now everyone uses them.
2. Share and publish useful information — sharing filtered documents blogs etc. will also keep you up to date and will eventually increase your reputation
3. Blogs — write beautiful blogs containing enormous amount of knowledge on ongoing or upcoming things.
4.Infosec community -Try to find InfoSec community ,well involving in InfoSec community will surely increase your skills and will lend you to something good. There are community like G4H, NULL(India), and OWASP(worldwide) you could go for.
In the last I would say always be ready to learn from everything going around you, I mean everything .