Career change into IT at 35

As I fully admit, I’m speaking from the leisurely position of retirement, albeit with a furiously active brain. In earlier days of my public service career, early 80s, my purely creative skills came into play, photocopier was height of tech to reproduce my productions 😂 Then I was given the task to prepare brochure for a. central Dublin public service, which I completed with almost zero tech. I was so utterly frustrated at my remit versus allowed access to the most basic resources.

Inadequacy of resources seems to be principal of reports I hear from friends in tech nowadays; eg you have to penetration test your employer but are denied access to some of the more useful tools on Kali. This kind of thing happens in some Irish based companies.

This guy has studied and further explained the entire science of language and logic, meaning, philosophy etc, ie our human intentions and communication of such. All distilled by mathematical and diagrammatic terms .

People use the command prompt and PowerShell in Windows too. I'd be shocked how someone could work in IT without knowing the basics of those at least

You will need to be able to write some code for cyber security, an area I’m studying atm. But having said that, once you get the hang of Python and know what you are doing there’s a lot of cut & paste and tweaking things. I started Python aged 60, as a hobby, it’s not difficult and only a matter of getting used to it. As stated above I’m doing it a very cheap way with EU funded EITCA.

One thing to be aware of, with infosec it’s a constant learning process to keep pace with the knowledge of criminals, sine of whom are making a laughing stock of many of the traditional tools you mind find Kali Linux. They are in the realm of using AI methods of attack which just bulldoze through the relatively elementary stuff.

Again the above is what I’m studying, for the princely sum of €220! Nothing to lose!