Cyber on a Shoestring: Building Wagyu Career Skills and Experience on a Ramen Budget
Landing a job requires experience. But how do you get Kobe beef experience without a job or shift gears in your cybersecurity career to a facet of cyber that you don’t have any work experience in while your budget keeps your pantry stocked with Cup Noodles?
In this presentation, we will discuss free and affordable ways of building effective experience and skills in ways that are easily demonstrated through homelabs, repositories, blog posts, certifications, and more, covering aspects of both general cybersecurity as well as more facet-specific examples for Offensive, Defensive, OSINT, and GRC, etc. alongside some core tooling examples to focus on learning for each. Additionally, we will talk about how to better market your skills, personal branding, and experience in a resume, on LinkedIn, etc. to build an effective network and community to foster continual learning as time goes on.