Is it possible to learn cybersecurity as a hobby? It’s already hard enough to get a job anywhere… so might as well enjoy it on free time

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Well, at least it might beneficial for your personal purpose to secure your own data.

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Yes it is quite possible there are a lot of hacker challenges you can try. https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/challenges/problem

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Yeah, just start out with some Prof. Messer videos to learn basic concepts

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Sign up for TryHackMe. It's around $15 a month.

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Best to keep it as a hobby as working in cyber security is a completely different ball of wax.

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Cyber Security as a profession is terrible. It’s a bunch of org politics…

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This is why I decided not to take a CISO role when our previous CISO left lol. Would have been 30-40k more than I get now but we’re working on rewriting my role so that’d only be 10-20k more and I’m willing to take that much less to not deal with the politics of being a CISO in higher ed

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