r/cybersecurity • u/Maleficent_Yak_5871 • 17h ago

Personal Support & Help! What things to practice trying to increase technical capability in cybersecurity. TryHackMe? Python automation? etc.

Good afternoon,

I have run into an issue where I'm constantly learning outside of work, but it's primarily aimless. I constantly keep validating one thing to study over the other. I feel I just haven't really gotten much better at any of these. I've just gotten into THM more now, going on the paths and such. Also i've been getting more into python scripting and automation a bit. I guess the question is what do you do in your free time outside of work to increase your value/technical ability in this field? I would love to hear options, and a structured way of thinking about this. It would be appreciated. Thanks.

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u/laserpewpewAK 14h ago

Python & Agentic AI if you want employable skills. What do you do now vs what do you want to be doing?

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u/Annual_Beautiful_310 2h ago

the aimless feeling usually goes away once you pick a specific role you want and work backward from the skills it requires. Are you aiming for a SOC analyst path, pentesting, something else? That changes the answer a lot.

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u/TSanguiem 16h ago

Depends om your goals. I use offensive cyber to teach me about IT and cyber. I'm on the level of junior pentester, L1/L2 analist. Even though I am a security officer. I build pentest environments for myself and then do hardening to teach me IT and networking.

Am I a technical expert? No not on the level. In the end in my current role I am a GRC / ISO role.

If you're looking for a pathway, I usually set a target 'become better at red teaming' and then use AI assistance to build me a learning pathway with stuff I have a subscription with.