Everybody and welcome equals lecture.
And right now what we're going to do is we're going to talk about what was my personal path.
I got where I am right now.
What jobs did it take.
What path did I take.
And what was the first thing that I did.
Once I started trying to get the actual career and actual my first job in ethical hacking field.
OK.
So first of all uh I've known ethical hacking since like five years.
Once it started off as a hobby I basically was interested in I watched a lot of movies.
I was actually interested in learning how to do that because it seemed like an actual uh good skill
to have.
It seemed like an actual interesting skill to have.
And therefore uh I didn't really started off because of actually having a career one day in that field
uh or for actually earning any money in that field.
But that's how it turned out.
So I started off as a hobby basically.
I learned something on YouTube.
I basically search for Catalina extend in stock to machines.
Then I learned on different voting machines then bought my first laptop then I installed Linux on it
and basically on programming and learned everything I need in order to become an ethical hacker.
And then around two years ago uh I decided why not try to make some money using these actual field ethical
hacking field.
So what I started off is a little bit interesting because uh it's not really that usual.
And it does really work at least in my case.
I decided why not give private lessons from ethical hacking.
Now that is something that I haven't seen anyone do especially in my country where I usually see math
classes physics classes and some other usual classes that you see every time and then I decided well
maybe people would be interested in order to have an ethical hacking class because that is something
that is still taboo as is for most of the people.
And therefore I decided to print out around 1000 papers saying that I am offering classes and then I
put it in a certain city for each building and on my surprise I set the price to be around twenty dollars
an hour or something like that.
I can't even remember which in my case or in my country is a really high price for an hourly rate.
And I was and I was thinking that not many people will actually reach out to me to have an actual lesson.
Uh and that was basically a mistake once I actually uh put every paper out.
Basically the next day over 30 people already applied to have an ethical hacking lesson.
It was a good investment.
I was giving basically private lessons for uh twenty dollars an hour.
I taught people how they can hack wireless networks how they can hack social media accounts how they
can basically hack systems create back towards coding python and so on and so on.
Now from my personal experience what most people want wanted to if you for example decide that you want
to do this the same way you want to give people private lessons.
Most people will contact you because they want to learn how to hack either wireless networks.
That was one of the most things that people desired or the social media accounts such as Instagram and
Facebook.
That's also some of the things that people really wanted to know.
Of course you need to make sure to specify to them that all of that stuff is illegal unless you have
actual permission.
You can teach them that but what they do with that knowledge is only on them.
You basically only mentioned that it is illegal that they shouldn't do it and that you are only here
for the educational purposes and therefore what they do with the knowledge that they learn is their
own problem.
OK.
Now you might be asking why didn't really share it online.
Well basically uh in my country.
Most of the private lessons are actually labeled like that.
So someone actually creates a few hundred papers and puts it out somewhere in the public and therefore
he puts his phone number or email addresses and basically basically any contact information and then
these students contact them for private lessons.
That's what I did right here.
And it actually worked really well.
And not that long ago or not that long after that I basically joined a team of our private cybersecurity
company that actually offers cybersecurity packages to different companies or different firms that need
them.
Now that is also another thing that you should do and that you've tried to do.
It is also it's always good to create your own team that will work together and basically you offer
your own knowledge and your own protection within the fields of I.T. Security two different companies.
So how you will do that is simply let me just go to this site right here as it says in Fugard cybersecurity.
This is just an example of a certain website that offers cybersecurity protection and basically different
types of security protection to different companies as we can see right here cybersecurity solutions
and the consulting services we provide.
Threat Intelligence and strategies that protect your vital information and mitigate cybersecurity risks
prevent data breaches by attackers and safeguard your organization 24/7 so you basically offer your
own packages cybersecurity packages or your own help.
In order to protect a different company or different firm now you might be asking why do they need it.
While most of the companies actually have some valuable information or some information that shouldn't
really get into the wrong hands and they really want to secure it therefore they hire these teams.
These cyber security teams that actually secure their entire company and prevent the hackers and the
attackers from getting in.
Therefore you as an ethical hacker or as a cybersecurity expert you want to offer your own help to these
companies in order to protect their own data.
Therefore once I join my own team.
What we had at that moment is basically we had just a team and we created a website where we offered
our own packages of cybersecurity solutions or cyber security help that will prevent hackers from getting
it on company.
So the company actually contact how does it go.
Well basically the company contacts you.
It says I need to secure my own personal space and by personal space I mean inside the company building
you want to secure your father's networks you want the security or machines.
For example one company actually had only Windows XP installed which is actually really bad considering
it was only two years ago.
The entire company running 80 percent of Windows XP is really dangerous especially as there are many
reliability issues with Windows XP and therefore the entire company needed an upgrade to the newer Windows.
And basically we installed just we understand you installed the antivirus is the firewalls and everything
that the company requires from you it is mostly something uh really easy such as for example securing
their PCs with an antivirus that would prevent different types of threats.
Then you need to actually secure the wireless networks which is also something that they search for
and by secure you simply just specify to them don't use Open Net folks don't use WPP use WPA to basically
search for our good password and a strong password and don't share it to anyone.
So once you actually have a team or if you choose to take that path and create a team which will offer
some help you simply just can create different types of packages that you will offer to different companies
such as for example system security as a package while security I have known that for I.T. Security
basically you need to make sure that the that their network structure or I.T. structure inside that
building is completely secure that there are not any holes that there is not a vulnerable machine inside
that specific net because if you for example find one vulnerable machines it is a really good chance
that you will be able to infect the entire network inside that specific building.
Now of course it doesn't have to be on the security inside that building you can simply just take and
simply just remove to secure their own website.
So for example you can have someone in your team that is a expertise in the website penetration testing.
And therefore once they are it is best to actually test their Web site for the security issues and mobility
codes you can pass.
You can hire someone from your team to perform that specific test and to see whether that company or
that company's website has any security issues as we can see right here the first security issue for
this actual website would be that it is not even a shitty P.S. as it says right here.
It is not security CTP.
Therefore if you have any actual information that is going over this Web site such as for example this
right here it can be sniffed very very easily by anyone that is intercepting connections over our own
network.
Simply fight this type my name and everything right here and send the request.
The attacker would be able to read it in plain text just because this website is not a HDP s and doesn't
have a cell encryption that basically encrypts your own data and doesn't let anyone see it in plain
text.
OK.
So uh that is also something that you can do and that is also something that I did uh which can be a
side thing.
You don't really need to put everything into that team.
Uh simply in my personal example I work basically like one or two days a week and it is not really that
stressful.
You can simply just have it on a side while you have your own projects or on Main projects that you
do besides that now of course once I actually got into the team and actually started doing tests for
the different companies that actually require our own help I stopped giving private lessons because
I didn't really see any point in doing that.
Therefore I started searching online jobs on different freelancing platforms that they showed you in
the previous video and therefore there is also not work which I started not long ago.
I basically started it off by a few months ago.
And there I managed to find my first job which was to actually be an instructor as an ethical hacker
which is also something that you can do it is similar to the private classes that take it before this
an English language and it is online but doesn't really matter.
You can always have that opportunity in front of you once you learn some skill you can always be an
instructor or a professor or someone that gives private lessons regarding that specific field because
you have knowledge from that field and therefore right now because of up work you're basically watching
this course because currently on my upper profile you will see the time working as an actual instructor
for the Ethical Hacking courses and therefore for this course as well which will teach you how you can
get your first career or pardon me or you can get your first job in this ethical hacking field.
Okay.
So basically let us sum everything up.
There are a few ways you can go you can create your own team you can join a team that already exists
that provides their cybersecurity and ethical hacking skills in order to protect different companies
from different threats and real abilities.
That's always a good thing to do.
It doesn't take too much of your time especially because you're in a team at least in my case.
And then next to it you can always have an actual freelancing platforms and your online accounts where
you will apply for different jobs whether those are full time jobs part time jobs longer or shorter
jobs.
It doesn't matter you can take anything you really like and you'd think that you can do and therefore
you will be good to go.
And soon enough you will find your first job and from there you will find your second job and you will
create a career for yourself.
Now another important thing to do is to keep everything on the legal side because sometimes on this
up for platforms and on these freelancing platforms you can find clients that will actually require
you to perform some illegal stuff especially in the ethical hacking field.
Now another thing how you can actually recognize those clients is you can simply just go right here
onto the upper page.
You can go right here and now.
This doesn't have to mean but once the payment is not verified it means that the client basically probably
just made the account fade here on up for work and search for someone that will do its job.
Now also another thing from my personal experience is that as soon as the client actually asks for your
Skype account or basically for the communication outside of the platform they will most likely want
to actually have you do something illegal and by legal they most likely want you to hack some websites
that they do not own or that they do not have permission to actually tell you that you need to hack
it.
Therefore if you encounter something like that you should keep away because most likely they will actually
want something from you that you shouldn't really do.
OK.
So basically that will be about it for this lecture.
I hope you enjoyed it and I hope I will see you in the next one by.