Introduce Yourself & Tell Us How We Can Help You Succeed in Cybersecurity!

[Sagar]

Thanks

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[Christophe]

Welcome to the community, @MrSagarBedi ! We’d love to learn more about your learning goals — are you looking to get certified? Learn specific skills?

[Eric]

Hello my name is Eric and I just signed up after watching one of your awesome videos on sql injection. I am a full time student but first a husband and father. This is my second career as I was injured and couldn’t continue with my first which was in law enforcement. I am almost finished with about 3 years of school but is not the same as you would think as my community college has a special program with a local university which allows me to complete my third year at the community college level then go on to the university level and finish up 1 year and get my bachelors in cybersecurity. I love ethical hacking specifically webapp and malware analysis. My biggest expectation is to find some direction and help as I move forward. It’s overwhelming the amount of information and resources to sift through and I often find myself on rabbit trails. I would then love to give back to this community by sharing some of the projects I had difficulty with in school. I’ve written a few tutorials but still have a long way to go. I’m trying to focus on programming, networking, and webapp pentesting. Please let me know if you have any questions.

[Christophe]

Welcome, @sechvn ! We’re glad to have you here and we look forward to helping you find your path! It can definitely be an overwhelming field because there’s so much going on, so much to learn, and so many possible directions. Let’s keep the dialog open and take it one step at a time, and you’ll find your footing in no time 🙂

I’d personally love to hear about some of the projects you had difficulty with in school, and I have no doubt others would benefit from it too.

You mentioned having written a few tutorials — have you posted them publicly? If so, I would love to take a look. Otherwise, we’d love to have you consider posting them on our blog, since they could help others in similar shoes!

[Eric]

Thank you so much for the insight and I think it would be awesome to connect with you especially for my brother. He is currently developing a keylogger and has already created a website utilizing python flask. He is also a wiz with networking. But he is very discouraged and has had several interviews with no results. The labs that I had the most trouble with was actually configuring Burp. I ended up figuring everything out and wrote two tutorials on Burp and Ettercap. Haven’t shared them publicly but have no problem sharing them with you. I used Microsoft word to create both please let me know how I can get them to you.

[Eric]

The other task that I had an extremely difficult time with was setting up a pentesting lab utilizing vmware workstation. I have since set up multiple virtual pentesting labs. One of the main issues were trying to understand the virtual networking aspect. The most current lab I have set up uses pfsense to distribute IP’s within lan segments to my VM’s. I have a DC with another server instance and two windows machines and a kali machine. One of the issues was understanding that in order for vmware workstation to use the bridge setting on a laptop wirelessly is you have to go into network editor and set the bridge adapter to your wireless adapter and not automatic. But I would say that setting up these labs were probably the most challenging in that a lot of tutorials don’t cover virtual networking. Vmware has extensive documentation but when your using wireless via a laptop it gets tricky. I think the community for students could really use an in depth series on setting up realistic pentesting labs and utilizing pfsense. Another crucial area that I have not seen covered really well is the area of setting up honeypots and using for example the onion security VM that has tools to analyze the traffic coming into the honeypot like snort. There are some but I know for myself it really isn’t covered well enough to feel comfortable running a honeypot. Sorry to ramble on I just think the way you explain things is amazing and so many students would benefit from your instruction in some of these areas.

[kripar]

Hi community!! I’m here out of sheer curiosity about the SQL injection attacks….The course is very useful and love the detailed presentations. Thank you!

[Christophe]

Welcome @kripar and thank you! We’re glad to have you here.

Let us know if you have any questions about the SQL injections course. By the way, we’ve just recently added an OS Command injections section to that course, so check that out!

[Yourstudent]

We learn from you and your team thanks for this keep teaching

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[Christophe]

Thank you! We’ll definitely keep at it 🙂

[Steven]

Hi!

I joined after watching a video where Shannon Morse recommended your course on XSS. Looking forward to learning some stuff and getting better with my XSS knowledge.

[Christophe]

Welcome Steven! Shannon is awesome – glad you found her video useful! Definitely looking forward to having you go through the XSS course, and I can’t wait to hear your feedback 🙂

[nigel]

Hi, My name is Nigel Murphy. find this through Shannon Morse. I am a IT professional mainly a generalist in the field. Just looking for another place to talk and learn.

[Christophe]

Hey Nigel, we met through Discord but wanted to welcome you again through here and say hello! Glad to have you!

[Gerso]

Hello Shawna and everyone else in this community,

I am new here, currently work as an IT Specialist for a big Immigration Law firm in San Antonio, as well as attend graduate school for my masters in Cybersecurity. I would like to get more hands on supplemental training as well as network with y’all here. Hope to make new friends here. See you on the boards!

[Christophe]

Hi Gerso, and welcome to the community! Glad to have you here. What kinds of training are you primarily interested in? Any ideas on what roles you’re looking to head towards, or still figuring that out?

[Per Arne]

Hi, my name is Per Arne and I am lecturing on Digital Preparedness and Introduction to Cyber Security at Nord University Business School, Norway. I joined CYBR to learn more as well as participating in discussion how to reach “hearts and minds” in order to increase security awareness.

Best regards

Per Arne Godejord
Senior Lecturer
https://www.nord.no/en/employees/per-arne-godejord

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[Christophe]

Hi @Godejord , and welcome to the Cybr community! Can’t wait to hear & see more of your thoughts on how we can increase security awareness!

[Tlalanne20]

Hello!!

Thank you for having this awesome forum. I have been going through the videos, but towards the tutorial point in the OWASP and ZAP, I could not move forward in the HUD tutorial ” BREak”; I Can’t seem to change the numbers to ZAp and move forward. Can someone help in the most concise and detailed way possible thank you!

[Christophe]

I found the HUD break functionality to be a bit janky at times, so I usually just use ZAP without the HUD. To do that, make sure ZAP is open, navigate to the page where you’ll want to set up a break point, then click on the green circle in ZAP, which will make it turn red. Then, complete your action (like trying to submit a form, for example), and ZAP will pause the action until you step through each request & response. The way to step through is to click on the play-looking button next to the green circle until you get to the request/response you’re interested in. At that point, you can modify the request directly from ZAP.

Let me know if this doesn’t make sense and I can send over a quick video showing it!

[Shamim]

Hi, My Name is Shamim from Newyork city, New York. Recently completed the 13th month-long Cyber Security Bootcamp from New York University. Having a job with a new york city project under a private company as a SOC Analyst. Still looking at Cyber Security Solutions for cloud infrastructure. Need your advice.

[Christophe]

Welcome to the community, Shamim! And congrats on not only completing the BootCamp but also landing a position. That’s awesome! In terms of this: “Still looking at Cyber Security Solutions for cloud infrastructure. Need your advice.” Can you provide more details as to what you mean by solutions for cloud infrastructure? What are you trying to solve specifically?

[julito]

Hi everyone my name is Julito Razon from Philippines I’m 18 yrs old i want to learn more about cybersecurity can you guide me ware to start thankyou.😀

[Christophe]

Hi Julito! Welcome to the community and congrats on deciding to pursue cybersecurity! Hop on over to our Discord community so we can better help 🙂

https://cybr.com/discord

Discord

[Frederick]

• Where are you on your cybersecurity journey? What is your Current Role?
• I have a strong interest in Cybersecurity but I’m not working in this field. I mostly do CTF for the past 6 months. I’m curious and I try to learn stuff from different sources.

• What is your current Cybersecurity Goal?

I am currently spending most of my time on the

Pentester Path on Academy.HackTheBox.com. I am also doing some training on AWS Skill builder.

• What do you NEED the most “from us” to help you succeed?

At the moment, I want to do small courses. I’m not ready yet to enroll myself in a long learning path toward certification. I may try the AWS Certified Practitioner since their courses are good quality and very low cost.

• What would you like to do to help others succeed in cybersec?

I have taken the habit of documenting everything I do and collecting a lot of documentation. English is not my first language, I did not share my work to this date. But soon, I will put my Obsidian vault on GitHub to show my journey.

I am a big fan of John Hammond’s Youtube channel. He’s advocating to show the work I do and to put my name out there.

[musatalor]

My name is Tyler from Texas, US. Wanna learn more about cybersecurity, vpn, proxies, and lots of things.