Cybersecurity
Exploring computer systems and networks through a security-focused lens, with an emphasis on understanding how systems behave, fail, and can be defended.
Why Cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity provides a practical way to understand how software, operating systems, and networks function under real-world conditions. Studying security exposes edge cases, misconfigurations, and assumptions that are often invisible in normal software development.
What I’ve Explored So Far
- Basic networking concepts and traffic flow
- Network scanning and service enumeration
- Packet inspection and traffic analysis
- Understanding common attack surfaces and misconfigurations
Tools & Technologies Encountered
Tools are used as a means to understand concepts, not as an end goal.
- Nmap
- Wireshark
- Hydra
- OpenSSL
- Kali Linux environment
Connection to Computer Science
Cybersecurity intersects with operating systems, networking, cryptography, and software engineering. Concepts learned here reinforce core computer science fundamentals rather than replacing them.