Cybersecurity as a study field, hobby, and as a profession

Cybersecurity has been gaining popularity among the students and researchers from various disciplines as a study field. There are many international vendor certificates are available in addition to bachelors, masters, and, of course, PhD and post doc fellowships. The job market also looks promising as there has been a shortage of qualified technical personnel. Though the profession may take a lot of commitment and dedication, however it certainly could start as a hobby.

  

Certifications:

• ISC2 certifications: https://www.isc2.org/certifications
  
• CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional: https://www.isc2.org/Certifications/CISSP
• ISACA certifications: https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/certificates
• CISA - Certified Information Systems Auditor: https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/cisa
• CISM - Certified Information Security Manager: https://www.isaca.org/credentialing/cism
  
•  Cisco Security Certifications: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/certifications/security.html
• CyberOps Associate
• CyberOps Professional
• CCNP Security
• CCIE Security
  
• RedHat:
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Security: Linux

 

Example of research papers, projects, articles, blogs:

•  Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models: https://llm-attacks.org/
  
• A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01074
• When CSI meets public WiFi: inferring your mobile phone password via WiFi signals: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2976749.2978397

•  NeMo Guardrails open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems: https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo-Guardrails
  
• Academics steal data from air-gapped systems using screen brightness variations: https://www.zdnet.com/article/academics-steal-data-from-air-gapped-systems-using-screen-brightness-variations/
• Academics steal data from air-gapped systems using PC fan vibrations: https://www.zdnet.com/article/academics-steal-data-from-air-gapped-systems-using-pc-fan-vibrations/
•  Mitigating Stored Prompt Injection Attacks Against LLM Application: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/mitigating-stored-prompt-injection-attacks-against-llm-applications/