In progress — Security Engineering Fundamentals
Information Security Engineer
I'm documenting a deliberate path from networking fundamentals to a job-ready Security Engineer skillset — grounded in real job-market data, hands-on labs, and evidence I can show, not just describe.
Courses & platforms I'm using for this phase
01 Security Engineering Fundamentals
Sub-categories02 IAM / Identity
Sub-categories03 Security Operations / Detection
Sub-categories04 Cloud Security
Sub-categories05 Automation / Scripting
Sub-categories06 Vulnerability Management
Sub-categories07 Application / API Security
Sub-categories08 Threat Modelling / Security Design
Sub-categories09 Containers / Kubernetes / IaC
Sub-categories10 DevSecOps
Sub-categories11 AI / LLM Security
Sub-categories12 SOAR
Sub-categories13 Post-Quantum Cryptography
Sub-categoriesBuilt a small Splunk instance ingesting auth logs, wrote and validated a correlation rule, then documented false-positive tuning.
Captured and annotated a full TLS 1.3 handshake in Wireshark to build a concrete mental model of the protocol.
First pass at extracting recurring vs. emerging requirements from real listings, and how it reshaped near-term priorities.
Every topic goes through the same cycle before I consider it "known" — concept, then hands-on lab, then breaking and fixing it myself, then writing it down. Memorisation isn't the goal; being able to do the work is.