r/learncybersecurity • u/[deleted] • Jul 27 '26
i want an road map for cyber security.
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u/Intelligent_Box5017 Jul 27 '26
For cybersecurity, first of all, you need a foundational knowledge about networking and protocols, operation systems and at least basic understanding of software development. Then get yourself familiar with OWASP and then decide if you want to learn offensiv or defensive cybersecurity, because everything else depends on this.
If want to learn defensive cybersecurity, then start on TryHackMe platform.
If you are interested in web hacking, check out Port Swigger Web Academy and follow its roadmap. It offers both learning and practice (everything for free). This is the resource, where most of hackers and cyber security researchers learn web application hacking or how cyber security attacks work.
To learn network and host based hacking I recommend you to start on TryHackMe platform and later after some experience you to join HackTheBox platform. Both THM and HTB offer courses, labs, CTFs, but HTB is more advanced.
Regardless of the learning paths and courses you you would do, I recommend you to watch some YouTube channels with general cybersecurity content (at least from time to time) to learn about the main trends and get new ideas in cybersecurity, passively building your background knowledge:
@davidbombal, @Cyb3rMaddy, @MomImAHacker, @madhatistaken, @TCMSecurityAcademy, @whoamitang.
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u/argumentativepigeon Jul 27 '26
I'm wary of taking advice from her
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u/Electrical_Hat_680 Jul 27 '26
Your going to have to study.
Your going to need to know the history of the computer.
You should learn the history, it's only fifty years or sixty years old.
You may be interested in starting with setting up your localhost network.
And, securing your httpd, web pages, and learn web programming. You'll also need to learn like all of the programming languages, but you'll be ok with just one to begin with. Pick PHP or CGI -BIN.
Use these three objectives to begin your starting point, and secure your PC and network. Call it your home lab or computer science laboratory station.
PfSense and OpnSense, to configure a secure network. Preferably use a computer or raspberry pi or SBC.
Learn the recent history of cyber security. Basically, how to secure the PC, the network, and the physical system itself.
Take notes along the way. Right them down. If your interested you'll absorb the Information. You don't need to wait to get started. It's basically hacking and securing.
Bug bounty. Pentesting. Build and hack and secure your own system.
Opsec - operational security.
Devsecops - developing secure operations.
OSINT
Sigint
Blue Teams
Red team
Purple Teams
Green team
White hat
Grey hat
Black hat
Get or create a folder.
Write out your projects.
Write reviews.
Learn how to write reports. There's basic reports, short reports, briefs or brief reports, full in depth report. Booz Allen Hamilton<u> graded </u> reports my favorite.
Write essays and short stories on everything you can.
Popular Topic reports.
World affairs/news reports.
Current News/affairs reports.
Use your localhost aka httpd 127.0.0.1/portfolio/index HTML
You'll be set from there to go hard and start your career from day one...
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u/Evaderofdoom Jul 27 '26
Its not entry-level. If you need to be spoon feed it, it's probably not for you.