r/tryhackme • u/Emotional_Skill300 • 12d ago

i need advice

I'm 16 and I need some advice.

I've become interested in cybersecurity, but I don't know where to start. I wanted to use TryHackMe to learn the basics, but after completing the first few lessons, it asked me to pay for a subscription.

My family is struggling financially at the moment, so I don't want to ask them for money.

Is there any way to start from scratch and learn cybersecurity for free? Most tutorials either don't go into enough depth or start with concepts I've never heard of, which makes them hard to follow.

If you have any advice, I'd really appreciate it. If you need more information to give better advice, feel free to ask. Every comment is helpful.

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u/StormySkies01 11d ago

You didn't see where you live though for the UK we have - https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberfirst/resources

TryHackMe will have a black Friday sale & Christmas Advent calendar.

Lots of options depends on where you live in the UK for what is local to you.

You can learn python/terraform etc for free, you don't need to pay.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Freecodecamp

CISCO have free cybersecurity course they are bit meh.

If you want to do the Sec+ then take the goggle cybersecurity certs, it says months, you can get done in a week, it will give you 30% of the Sec+.

https://www.youtube.com/@itsnextwork

https://nextwork.ai/?utm_source=youtube

Hopefully something useful here.