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| Re: How did you become a security experts? said by alamarco  :As the subject suggests, the question here is how did you become a security expert? I have no freakin' clue...am I an expert even?!
I dunno, I get this question alot and basically my answer is 'where there's a will there's a way' - I was super interested in it so would geek out in front of the computer and learned lots and put that to use and people recognized it.
That said times are changing, when I started out there wasn't much in the way of 'computer' degrees and much like my counterparts in the security industry I have little related qualification for what I am skilled at (I actually went to school for recording engineering) but these days there are degrees and courses for network security and the pendulum between what you know and what the piece of paper says you know swings back and forth so who knows what employers are looking for right now but I can tell you that the network security field has lots of jobs available for the right people (and don't be scared away by the job listings that are asking for insane qualifications...apply anyway).
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