My Top 5 Tips For New Cybersecurity Graduates, Splunk and COVID-19
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5 min readMay 28, 2020
If you are into Cybersecurity, get into Splunk or Elastic, and the world of data analysis will be at your fingertips. So my Top 5 tips for any new graduate in Cybersecurity — in fact any computer science graduate —is:
- Learn cryptography. Honestly, it’s building a new world, and is fixing the Internet. You should especially focus on public key encryption, as it will be the foundation of our future. But, don’t surface learn … and, if you have time, have a look at Hyperledger — it truly is the architecture to build future systems.
- Learn Python. Do you need me to say it again — learn Python! I will say it one more time, just in case you missed it — LEARN PYTHON! There’s no much need to right extensive code anymore, but Python drives data analysis and processing. And, while you are at it .. go setup your GitHub, and use it to sync your docs, code, and everything else you might need.
- Learn network protocols. Get into how network protocols work, and try and understand who data goes from one application to another, and all the data that goes along with it.
- Get into Splunk or Elastic. Honestly, it’s the future! Dump Excel and Word, and go use a tool which can properly analyse data and present information. Data will increasingly drive cybersecurity, so the jobs of the future will be those who can code a bit, and can analyse and present. You will get promoted on the beautiful charts you can produce to your executive team. Remember…
