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Re: Programming languages for IT Security
said by taytong888  :Hi, I am interested in an IT Security career. Which programming languages should I learn? Thanks in advance. Not sure of your education, age or current income, but this might be a good method.
Decide what Industry first. Say you choose banking. Might not be a bad idea to try to get a night shift operators position in a large bank.
While at first this sounds insane, you have a little more slack and free time at night, in some cases, to do some on the job programming while you work, maybe learn some report languages and so on for many platforms at once.
You get to know process, batch streams, and for many platforms at once, in large corporate data centers.
In other words, background processes.
Then apply for a Quality assurance position in that same company say sometime during the first 1-2 years there, if you did well as an operator, you would have a better shot already being there, knowing staff members for different areas and so on.
If you wanted to you could then try for a programing position. The nice thing is by now you would know what systems and applications appeal to you, and you would have many choices to pick from.
All this might seem like to long way to get somewhere, it could take as long as 5 years to pull it all off, but by the time you were finished, you would have a taste of some of the major areas, and would be very well rounded.
Then I would try for the security position. At the same company, or maybe even someplace else.
This assumes you are trying to do this from scratch, with minimal education in the field, a kind of get your foot in the door without the old "Come back when you have more experience routine".
Few people want to work nights, so sometimes, it's the easiest way to get on your way to an IT career.
Again, this would depend on how fast you want to climb the ladder, the more experience you have in as many areas as possible, the more your skills will be valued, both in full time and consulting positions for security.
There are other ways to do all this, but who knows, doing it this way, you may decide QA is better, in some ways Quality Assurance is a form of security, your testing new or modified systems and applications prior to going live.
It would be an interesting journey, and you would have a great edge in the future when your resume is laying on a table with many others who may be lacking prior experience in some of the areas above.
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