Currently, I am studying for my Master’s degree in Cybersecurity. The more I learn about cybersecurity and cybercrime, the more I understand the importance for highly trained security professionals. Many companies are having frequent breaches. The cost of a breach today is almost 4 million dollars [1]. This has motivated me to build sources of information for people looking to build the skills needed for a career in cybersecurity.
The more I learn about cybersecurity and software engineering, the more I understand the importance of cybersecurity. As important as cybersecurity is today, it will greatly increase in importance in the upcoming years. Cybersecurity professionals are like the police force of the internet. Without them, there would be crime without measure; people would walk in and out of banks and steal all the money they need with no problem.
In response to this, I plan to build a website that gives users a 100% free curriculum on the basics of cybersecurity. I plan to take diligence to make the content to focus on using tools used by ethical hackers and security admins. It can be very complicated to learn all of the different tools, and I hope my website makes the learning process as simple as possible. I also would like to discuss and analyze different breaches that are attacking the networks of organizations and companies. It would be a nice goal to find statistics of recent breaches, and provide useful information to security teams of companies.
Overall, I am looking forward to building other’s skills, as well as my own, in the areas of cybersecurity. I hope to post topics such as pen testing, ethical hacking, web application security, mobile device security, malicious software, viruses, and more. I plan to write lessons on tools such as nmap, MetaSploit, nessus, and more. I also hope to write about implementing security features in different programming languages, such as C#, Ruby, and JavaScript.
I am writing the application in React.js. I want to keep things simple, so there will be no back-end. I also plan to run ads on the site to help me support it. I have found a good front-end template to use, so I don’t think it will take too long to get something up and running. Also, I may use Amazon Web Services to host the website and its content, which I would also enjoy going deeper into.
Sources: [1] https://securityintelligence.com/posts/whats-new-in-the-2019-cost-of-a-data-breach-report/