Former lurker trying to post more, Internet link curator, and meme connoisseur. He/Him
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General question but how do y’all actually find a mentor? I feel like there’s probably a local group nearby me or something that I could look into but are there places/people that are more likely to say “yes, I will mentor you” in y’all’s experience?
I mean, fuck Reagan – he’s the reason why we’re in this mess in the first place.
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/
I’m not sure if this is the right venue for this question so please let me know if that is the case – happy to ask elsewhere!
I’ve been in various IT roles for the past 10 years and seem to have gotten stuck in a support capacity. My career goal is to be more of a DevSecOps or Security Engineering role but I honestly can’t get the time of day with an interviewer. I’ve got experience with programming, cloud infrastructure, web application security, and am currently going for my CKA but I don’t have a ton of experience “on paper”. Most of my experience is either me doing things myself to further my knowledge or taking on security things within my current role – for ex. in one support role I did a web application penetration test to make sure there weren’t any gaping holes before we deployed it.
How can I make sure that I have the right experience down on paper for when I’m applying to roles? Has anyone here “broken out” of a support role into security? What was your experience with it? I also have a lot of interest in doing research work and I know this can dovetail with the two roles I listed above but maybe I need to focus on the core ideas of those roles more?
I did not know that was a show and now I can not un-know it lol. Feel like that is going to be a risky search at 1 in the morning.
@shellsharks@infosec.pub Sorry, was offline for a few days! Not really sure what I’m looking for, honestly? Mostly someone to kind of push me for doing more/exploring more? I’d like to focus in on AI security as well as container security and I know I can start that work on my own – I just know it’s easier/more likely for me to do things if I have someone filling in the blanks on things I don’t know that I don’t know. I’ll start with those there (been following She Hacks Purple and InfoSec Sherpa for a bit) and see if any long hanging fruit shakes lose from the tree, thanks again!