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When i got into cyber security i was extremely enthusiastic about it. I was fascinated by how a simple string on hexadecimal values can give you remote access to any machine, so i learned many things like exploits development, reverse engineering and malware analysis. During my tenure of 6 years i used IDA just once.

In my opinion Indian cyber security, especially SOC is just like another job, we don't have a creative culture in cybersec domain. That's heart breaking.....

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It's not about India, it's about organization and people you work with. Find a job in a product company, Security services company, Cyber security tools company. Never join CTS, wipro, ey, Deloitte kind of companies

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You will get pentesting projects also, but the scope of work will be limited and lots of restrictions. And they want you to work on VDI which is bad

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Agreed ! We have become a generation of skiddies !

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That's the word ...

They won't give you high tech laptops, won't allow you to do mobile app testing

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Hahahaha relatable 🤣🤣

How about pentesting?

@Author: no one checks your tool knowledge while interviewing you. Everyone asks you how you exploit a system or application. Tools are necessary to perform certain things you really need technical skills to make best out those tools

So it means cybersecurity is not a good career option?

No big business in the world would exist without cyber security

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