Cybersecurity Skills

One of the things I typically recommend is learn a programming language. There’s lot of them out there. If you want to start with something simple, maybe look at something like JavaScript or VBScript. Definitely some very good foundations of learning the basics of programming.

I happen to be a PHP fan myself. I tend to like writing PHP. But I do also write JavaScript and VBScript and I also teach a VBScript class in addition to a VBA class. So that’s visual basic for applications.

If you’ve ever seen kind of the backend interface to Microsoft Excel or Word or PowerPoint, they have this interface that you can actually go in and write code to be able to do all sorts of different things. And that’s where things like macro viruses and those little warnings that pop up if you’ve ever opened a Excel spreadsheet that says, “Beware of a potentially malicious code.” So that’s the type of area that you can go in and actually look at that type of thing as well. Learning a programming language can certainly be very helpful.

When you don’t have those skills, you tend to get mired down. You tend to get stuck. The work tends to be sluggish.

When you have these skills, you’re able to utilize the best of what other people have to bring to the table to get the solutions that you really need quicker, faster and more efficiently.

When you lack those skills, things get bogged down. There’s miscommunication, there are all kinds of issues that can pop up, but it’s mostly about the ability to effectively work with others, because you can never accomplish as much on your own as you can accomplish working with a team.

Everybody, when they come into their first role, they want to accomplish things on their own. They want to set their own mark. If people take that to an extreme for too long and don’t recognize the value of bringing other people in and making other people as productive as yourself, that tends to happen. The people who get stuck in that never graduate into senior leadership positions.

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