[shicky]

Slightly off-topic but I figure what the hell I may ask. I am two years out of university (comp sci), working as support/development in investment banks (indeed the work is destroying my soul.) I've spent quite a bit of time looking into fields I may be interested in such as security i.e. why I'm going to try your exercises.

My question is, this area seems quite niche, how does the average person work out if they're suited to this? Furthermore, is there obvious prerequisites to working out whether you will enjoy certain areas. i.e. I do not feel very good at programming, therefore is it strongly unlikely I would enjoy testing / security.

I realise this isn't the right place so feel free to ignore me :)

I can't seem to find the right place :( !

[snyff]

I think you can be suited for everything. IT Security is a real big domain, depending on your skills and what you like, you can land different jobs. If you are a person who go to calmly deep dive into problems, you may be interested by security code review, if you're more into quickly understand how things work and try to abuse the default behaviour, you can work in pentest. IT sec is a huge field. Just start learning and you will see what you like... There is no suited for this, even if being curious and working hard help a lot ;)

Feel free to email me (my email is on the exercises' front page), if you need to talk about this ;)

[shicky]

Very much appreciate the reply and thank you for the kind offer of e-mail. Hopefully I'll find time to try your course, e-mail you some feedback and perhaps pick your brain :)

Again OT, you said you taught PHP, where and how did you get into this?

Hope this takes off for you mate, best of luck!

[snyff]

Just did that at school, they needed someone to teach and I got lucky and got selected to do it :)

Thanks ;)