3 skills to get you started in transitioning into cybersecurity in 2021

So You Want to Get Into Cybersecurity This Year? Here’s What You Should Learn.

Stephen Chapendama
Geek Culture
Published in
12 min readJan 13, 2021

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As we welcome the New Year with a 3rd national lockdown in the UK, it, unfortunately, means some of us have had to cross off going to the gym as part of our new year's resolutions. For those who may be interested in adding cybersecurity as a replacement, I wanted to highlight some skills worth learning this year which will definitely help kickstart your career in cyber. It’s not the same as deadlifting your first 100kg, but doesn’t the thrill of learning how to protect the internet sound equally amazing?

As we have been plunged into remote working, for many organisations, it has created a skills gap. Across the country, we have seen companies continue to recruit for roles in cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure. They are many roles this covers, this can be from Security Analysts monitoring the cloud estate to Site Reliability Engineers ensuring web services are coping with the huge surge in demand. As we have…

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Stephen Chapendama
Geek Culture

Cyber Security & Africa | Technology Manager @ Foundervine.com & Site Reliability Engineer in Biotechnology 🚀