Journey to becoming a hacker: from zero to cybersecurity ninja

Abstract

Time to time technology changes and the need for cyber security experts increases. While is true that lots of universities prepare students on this career, somehow students face trouble understanding how to acquire the necessary knowledge to perform well, once they land a job in cyber security field. Also, it seems that they need to separate the theory from practice to not only understand why things happens in this field but to know how they happened and the causes that made them. Is for this that we will walk you through the journey of how to start a training that will take you from zero knowledge in the topic to skillful hacker in a short period of time using knowing tools to find the knowledge and exposing yourself to competitive environments that will put in practice what you learned in your degree and what was self-taught. Key Terms  Capture the Flag, CTF, Cyber Security, Cyber Training, Hacking.