I know collectively we're understaffed in security in general, but I am also sick of this "everyone from every walk of life wants to be and can be security" mindset, seen too many people come in who don't know the first thing. I don't mind helping out my juniors, but if you come at me with questions and obviously no prior knowledge or even attempt to research on your own, I am going to help you along to the door.
And not everyone can be red team, that's what a huge portion of people want, because it sounds sexy and they listen to too many podcasts. There are not that many positions for that specific job.
Personal rant aside -
Paul Jerimy did a good sort of layout of certs and where they fall in the various security domains.
So where do you want to be? Risk? Software? Ops? Network?
Certs will help you get hired, but if you have no experience aim for junior positions.
The best security people spend a few years in another position, a network or systems admin or developer first, to learn the ropes within what will become their specialty, got time and really want to be good, go that route.
I love my framework.
I've also got a DIY edition 11th gen, i5, really hoping for the news that AMD is on the near ish horizon but understand the difficulties.
I have run successfully arch, and now fedora 36 for most of my work and the machine is just great. Hell I am typing this post on it.
I find the ability to swap cards and for the ports is quite handy, I regularly carry hdmi, displayport, extra usb a and c, sd card and I just purchased and am awaiting the arrival of a 1 TB extension, primarily to hold all the many vms I use on a regular basis.
Might be a bit much but I bought a d-brand skin for it too, I didn't want the wrist rests to get all scuffed like on most of my other laptops so that should help.
Really looking forward to having this thing for many years.
Fingers crossed for that AMD upgrade. And the ethernet card/dongle soon.
Exactly as most protests in Ottawa go. Megaphones, signs, vehicles driving through, convoys etc honking or blocking one side of a road etc etc.
Its definitely annoying, and ocassionally lasted multiple days, but it gets support and doesn't potentially cost lives.
I lived in Ottawa for a lot of years and there were countless protests - but they respected the need for society as a whole to keep functioning (read: emergency services) and worked with the local police to make sure they were in the right.
They are acting as a group. If anyone within the group had stopped the others, I would agree with you in principal, even if not fact. But they didn't, they stood by and watched or cheered. They enabled.
Literally throwing shit is not peaceful protest.
Urinating on a war memorial is not peaceful protest.
Blocking access for ambulances - potentially causing significant harm or death - is not peaceful protest.
Ottawa has peaceful protests all the time - this is not that.
Apparently despite defacing many monuments around our capitol, blocking access for emergency services, desecrating the tomb of the unknown soldier by urinating on it, and literally throwing shit at a business because they had a pride flag up some people will still support these idiots.
I don't care who you are - what your politics are or anything else, if you associate with a group who has done the things these "peaceful protesters" have, you are completely in the wrong.
I know collectively we're understaffed in security in general, but I am also sick of this "everyone from every walk of life wants to be and can be security" mindset, seen too many people come in who don't know the first thing. I don't mind helping out my juniors, but if you come at me with questions and obviously no prior knowledge or even attempt to research on your own, I am going to help you along to the door.
And not everyone can be red team, that's what a huge portion of people want, because it sounds sexy and they listen to too many podcasts. There are not that many positions for that specific job.
Personal rant aside -
Paul Jerimy did a good sort of layout of certs and where they fall in the various security domains.
https://pauljerimy.com/security-certification-roadmap/
So where do you want to be? Risk? Software? Ops? Network?
Certs will help you get hired, but if you have no experience aim for junior positions.
The best security people spend a few years in another position, a network or systems admin or developer first, to learn the ropes within what will become their specialty, got time and really want to be good, go that route.