DON'T GET A CYBERSECURITY DEGREE

So basically learn the basics of swimming and the swimming environment, before you become a life guard

Why go get a degree, when Eli provides practical education for free!

I work at a major CyberSecurity firm as a helpdesk analyst, and that's all we do. Parse log files, and rip them apart.

The Cyber security degree at my local university is the regular computer science degree with one 30 credit java module swapped out for a network security module.

I've been binging through probably hundreds of your videos for a few months now (from relative tech illiterate scratch) trying to piece together the competency to hire the right technology professionals to do the technology for my business. This has been one of the most insightful yet. You might consider niching down on consultancy content marketed toward those of us who don't love/can't/won't do technology but need to learn how to qualify effective help and what to pay for it. If you're not getting enough love from your chronically aimless community. Tech recruiters would subscribe and probably pay for specialized, course based or private consultation. Maybe worth a compilation-based series ordered and re-titled by watch purposes to that effect just to test the click waters?

This video basically connects everything that I have been learning so far. Utilizing nmap to find devices connected to a network, using ping to test connectivity between the devices, using a command to create log files. Utilizing a parser to filter and pipe the data so that it becomes intelligible, and finally knowing what to look for and how to look for the information that has been parsed. Now it makes sense why I needed to learn Splunk, Nessus and so forth for my upcoming role as a SOC analyst. Those programs are basically the parsers that will allow me to filter the data so that I can analyze the occurrences. The key here now is to understand how to generate a .txt log file that will provide me with the network traffic information (similar to the tcpdump function), but for Windows most likely, parse that data through Nessus, Splunk,etc, understand the functions of each program and the information it returns to me, and analyze the information provided so that I can understand/triage the root cause of a potential attack or simply a false positive. Setting up alarms or automatic functions when certain requirements are met (a.k.a specific IP address pings x amount of times) is also very important. These functions will likely be constructed through scripting/coding. For that, I can probably use Python or Powershell.

You have become funnier in past few months.. 😂😂 Love and respect from India Bro..

I am so intoxicated with your clickbait videos. It's so soothing to listen to Eli's rumbling and chill. Please make more if that's not too much to ask.

Eli's the best, learned a lot from him. Thanks bro!!

I went back to school to get a Cyber Defense and Digital Forensics degree, to add to my programming degree from OIT. But my depression got so bad that I had to quit, and now I am trying to learn on my own. So thank you for your video resources.