IMO I think that some basic understanding of programming is good. I've been doing web dev recently and don't work in cyber security, but have worked with a cyber security team before and there have been quite a few number of occasions where some weird recommendations have been given to clients which don't really make sense to me as a programmer. Like this one time my team was told to encrypt data being passed through the api because they were watching the request from a client machine instead of from a 3rd party machine and despite how much my team told them about it (that the TLS did the encryption in transit), they wouldn't budge on their point, so we had to encrypt it still before sending it via our API request. I also think that being a programmer makes it so it's more natural to stay updated on the latest issues/vulnerabilities in applications and thus can make better vulnerability assessments (e.g. python could have a vulnerability in 2.7.x before 2.7.9 and the programmer had to upgrade their version for the fix on whatever application they might be working on, then when reviewing info from client, see that they haven't done that upgrade, hence likely also have that particular vulnerability)
Thanks for the advice! I was having difficulty in deciding which programming language to focus on and specialise it in. Now I can just go ahead with Python. 👍
Do you agree or disagree? I would love to hear your own opinion.
IMO I think that some basic understanding of programming is good. I've been doing web dev recently and don't work in cyber security, but have worked with a cyber security team before and there have been quite a few number of occasions where some weird recommendations have been given to clients which don't really make sense to me as a programmer. Like this one time my team was told to encrypt data being passed through the api because they were watching the request from a client machine instead of from a 3rd party machine and despite how much my team told them about it (that the TLS did the encryption in transit), they wouldn't budge on their point, so we had to encrypt it still before sending it via our API request. I also think that being a programmer makes it so it's more natural to stay updated on the latest issues/vulnerabilities in applications and thus can make better vulnerability assessments (e.g. python could have a vulnerability in 2.7.x before 2.7.9 and the programmer had to upgrade their version for the fix on whatever application they might be working on, then when reviewing info from client, see that they haven't done that upgrade, hence likely also have that particular vulnerability)
Yes I agree that having a basic understanding of programming is certainly very useful.
Thanks for the advice! I was having difficulty in deciding which programming language to focus on and specialise it in. Now I can just go ahead with Python. 👍
You can do it!
Thx
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