Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Cybersecurity Engineering, Cloud and Artificial Intelligence Division
The cybersecurity journey—where do I start?
If, in the past, the struggle to get into the information security (because it wasn't really called cybersecurity) field was due to lack of information, today, we have exactly the opposite: a tsunami of information. In the past, you just couldn't really find anything; it was almost like a dark market, and now it is fully mainstream. I believe that today's situation is much better from a self-learning perspective, as today you can easily create a lab environment to simulate attacks on your own machine, or in a cloud-based environment. Books are widely available, free online materials are usually of good quality, and there are far more target security certifications. So, if everything seems so...