I get asked a lot as to why GIS. Why study it when I already hold a Master’s in Cybersecurity and more IT degrees and certs than anyone cares to count. By now I could have stopped. I could have sat back, waved the certificates, and called myself an expert. But here is the truth. I do not consider myself
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There are life milestones we all remember: first love, first paycheck, first car… and for some of us who walk the sacred halls of IT geekdom, the first time we crimped a UTP cable. Oh yes. That glorious, slightly frustrating, oddly satisfying rite of passage. I still remember mine. Like it was yesterday. Probably because it was yesterday—kidding. It was
Let’s be real: nothing says “welcome to enterprise IT” like your first encounter with Windows licensing. You sit there, just trying to install Windows on a laptop, when suddenly you’re dragged into a world of keys, activation servers, and ominous messages about non-genuine software. It’s like buying a car and being told the wheels are a separate purchase, and no,
So, you want to be a network and cybersecurity engineer? You dream of packet-sniffing like a bloodhound, tracing intrusions like a digital Sherlock Holmes, and configuring routers like a Cisco wizard. Great. But let’s get one thing straight: You also need to know how to code. Yes. Code. Like, programming. Not just copying and pasting some random script from Stack
This Network and Cybersecurity Engineering Thing Is Hard (I Just Wanted to Be Cool) When I first got into network and cybersecurity engineering, I had dreams. Big dreams. I thought I’d be some kind of cyber-James Bond—sipping coffee in a dark room filled with blinking LEDs, typing furiously as firewalls fell and bad guys cried. What I didn’t picture was
Look, I’m not gonna lie—when people start throwing around terms like “subnetting,” “containerization,” or “multi-threaded asynchronous event loops,” I nod like I get it… then Google it in the bathroom five minutes later. Because let’s be real:I’m not the smartest dude in the room.But I do show up like I’m trying to win an Olympic gold medal in “Effort.” My