Once you break into a system, then what? If you don't know how to use it, you will be stuck. There are a large number of InfoSec tools that are built to run on Linux. It makes sense to understand the platform that these tools run from. Although cyber security may be managed from macOS, Windows, or Linux, most of the common tools are available only on Linux. With Kali Linux being at the lead of the pack. In my journey, I knew I had to learn Linux. What I did first was install Kali Linux on VirtualBox and try and learn. This is bad. Really bad. I didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know basic usage. This is when I read an amazing statement- You can't learn how to drive in a F1 racecar. This is when I realized that I was wrong. I had to learn Linux in the easiest distro, not the most powerful one. I told myself I wouldn't use Kali until I was ready to use it. This is because, learning was a pr
My journey to becoming a Security Professional