Honestly, my journey as a beginner in learning ethical hacking was very complex and tough. I was new to many things, and everything seemed so confusing. During my learning process, I wanted to give up, especially when we started to clone tools or upload packages on the Kali Linux terminal. It was very confusing back then because different packages had a lot of git clone responses, and some were even being rejected by my Linux because of an incomplete installation.
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One thing that made me stand out during my beginner learning stage was my full interest in becoming an ethical hacker or a cyber threat analyst. I wanted to understand how these tools really work, how hackers tend to clone sites and how to respond to threats. I had so many back-and-forths learning, same with all my colleagues, but we never backed down, we kept on moving. There is one thing I respect about my colleague, which is that we created a group on every software and tool each of us learn, we share it there, and also drop our easy process reviews on how it went through.
I will say learning cybersecurity was one of the toughest courses I have ever engaged in. I graduated from a department of sport science and physical therapy, which we call Human Kinetics, but I had a deep interest in tech and I never allowed my occupation of what I studied to affect my interest. I felt my career was all about passion and the interest we all have in something.
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Later I came to the realisation that learning a hard skill like ethical hacking is easier than learning soft tech skills like graphic design or data analysis because skills like this require you to be creative and innovative unlike ethical hacking that all you need to do i understand diffrient tools and how to respond to attacks and also predict vulnerablities and detect them with tools and intelliegence. I find it easy and interesting, but the truth is we can not learn every domain under cybersecurity because it will be very complex, so I am more focused on learning ethical hacking, and I often prepare myself by watching videos on YouTube and also trying out different software on different sites.
Ethical hacking is generally difficult, but the truth about it is that once you get to use the necessary tools perfectly and understand basic commands to respond to them, then it can be made easier. I encountered so many difficulties learning ethical hacking g but one thing that also made my l; earning easier and watching the videos less confusing is Chat gpt, i learned tro adapt to ai in response to code or synatx error i fail to understand, this really helped me and created a more easier way for me, I am more fociused on my Notes and chat gpt when using any tools even till date.
In conclusion, regardless of how dificult a task might be we must learn to adapt to creative shortcut or hear people observations and experienece about thing to make it easier, I have always had this belief from childhood that nothing is as complex as far as someone has learnt it and written about it then I can also learn it too.
This is my entry to Hivelearners Week 170, Episode 01
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