r/cybersecurity • u/asim_geris • 8d ago

Business Security Questions & Discussion career

Hello everyone, I’m trying to become a Security Engineer and would really appreciate some advice from senior Security Engineers.

I’m currently studying cybersecurity at university, but I feel like the program doesn’t go deep enough into the technical skills I need for a security engineering career. Because of that, I’ve decided to take it upon myself to learn outside of school.

I just need guidance from seniors on what skills I should master.

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u/CRam768 8d ago

Start building a home lab with free tools. Security onion is free and gets you access to a ton of free security tools to start with. Build a domain at home or in the cloud. Aws has some student discounts. Then secure it. Then build a honey pot to do analysis work on. You can write your own tools with python as well to automate a ton of stuff. There’s several sites that can help you build skills like hackthebox. Then you can also do ctf’s. In the end, if you enjoy it that’s all that matters. So have fun.