CIRCUIT MAGAZINE ISSUE 61
By James Bore
cyber security fundamentals
Learning Cyber We're now into my fourth year regularly writing for Circuit, and while the cyber security scene has changed there are some obstacles which seem insurmountable. One of those is the often discussed skills gap, the shortage of people in cyber security.
There's a lot of debate over the skills gap and I've mentioned it before.
development, with something of an old-fashioned and outdated view that the best hackers are self-taught for free and so the For now I'm going to set that to one best cyber security people must side, and talk about the various be as well. As one of the most ways organisations and individuals qualified professionals I know of try to address it, from self-study, to in the security field, Dr. Richard Diston, writes the "worst advice is degrees, to bootcamps. the stuff you get for free because Self-Study nobody has any investment in its quality". This is true in any domain, Probably the most championed and especially in cyber security and well-known way to break into cyber security is self-study and self a lot of the free advice out there 48
