Azid's InfoSec Journey

I found a thread on Reddit. The OP had the same dreams as I did and he was my my age too. This got me interested. He had created a mind-map of his career path in InfoSec. This mind-map was perfect for me. It had everything I wanted/had to do and more. This created a motivation for me because I had to achieve what was in the mind-map. Open image in new tab for full size. Courtesy of /u/pimpslapper This is perfect for what I had to do. It is like a to-do list for my career. I started working on it slowly. I may have changed it a bit here and there, but this is the main idea. In my following blogs, I will be posting the changes I made in this and why I did so. Thanks for reading! AZID

Two Words: Career Journal This is basically a journal to my journey in InfoSec. It helps me keep tab of things and keeps me motivated. What I want to accomplish with this blog: My goal is to inform people about my findings, projects and share the resources I used to learn. Image courtesy: @hackersclub The title for this post was: “Why did I create this blog?” and although I have partly covered why I created it, there are a number of other reasons that I will discuss other posts! Thanks for reading! AZID

A few years back, as a pre-teen who watched a lot of movies, I was fascinated by hackers. Honestly, this is what got me into security. To see "hackers" do what they did made me feel like they were invincible. But as I grew up, I found out about what actually a "hacker is. This is when I thought, my career is going to based on InfoSec. My learning started when I started looking up how to hack stuff on Google. It started with me phishing my friends and pranking them by telling them I read their mind to find their password. It was really fun. When I was 15, all my friends started planning their career and made maps of what they wanted to do. I found out it was time for me too. So I did all the Googling I could to make my own plan. It was not perfect. But it got me started. Now, here I am an 18-year-old student, who is trying to make a career in what he wants to. InfoSec.