The Perfect StormBefore I ever reached the conclusion that "I was born to do computing security" my life had to brew up the perfect storm, but before I can best explain that, I have to tell you about a couple of things that I hold dear. I've always been a huge fan of video games, movies, Chicago, Batman, computers, and teaching so when it came down to making a career choice I had to choose between becoming a vigilante or a teacher. However, life tends to give you more than just two options and I learned about and became obsessed with security after playing Watchdogs™, a video game set in Chicago where you play a crime fighting vigilante. It was too good to be true. After looking more into this field I quickly found that much to my amazement many of the people are open and there to share information with others. This set me on the path to learn how to penetration test so that I could not only live out my dream to be a movie styled hacker, but so that I may also work with the businesses we depend on to protect our data.
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Some cool competitions/ organizations I've gotten a chance to be a part of are:
OWASP Chicago Chapter SecDaemons(Depaul's Information Security Club) ISTS (Information Security Talent Search) Pico C.T.F NCL C.T.F (National Cyber League) |