The importance of Twitter to an information security newcomer
I’ll be the first to admit I’m very new to this field but will try my hardest to forge a career within industry with the general term ‘information security’.
I’ve been on twitter for a fair while now but I’ve found it practically invaluable with first of all finding people within the industry and secondly finding information on new things happening in the industry.
I recently saw this in a video presented by Marisa Fagan (@dewzi) on what you should be trying to do in order to get into the industry (found here) and she also keeps reiterating the importance of having a blog and being on twitter. And I will admit now that even though I subscribed to a fair few blogs etc, until I started to find security people on twitter, I was barely scratching the surface of the new things that are constantly being discovered and exploited.
If you too are just trying to get into this industry, whether you’re at university like myself or just interested from moving from another area of computing, I urge you to join twitter as it’s the best resource I’ve found for integrating with the (generally nice and helpful) people in the information security community.
