Computer Security

[Cyber]

Hi, Can anyone advise me i want to get into computer security, however i have no experience whatso ever, I need a courses that is gooing to learn me the very basic's and move upwards. perferably online courses.

Cheers

[vehelpfulguy]

Cyber,
You say you want to get into computer security, but as what ?

Security consultant, advising customers ?

You say you know nothing.

I dont want to dampen your enthusiam but I dont think you are going to be able to learn enough to help people for at least a year, possibly more. .

You cannot learn security on its own, you need to understand how computers connect together, networking, protocols, operting systems, it is a HUGE subject.

I would suggest you start small, buy a computer and install all the security software you can find. Learn about firewalls, viruses, spyware, mailware. There is loads on the web.

[vehelpfulguy]

Sorry to be so blunt, but if you are going to advise customers, maybe give them written reports, it may be a good idea to improve your english. Maybe take a class at college.

Customer will not take kindly to a report written about their security issues if it is full of spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.

It is "teach me" not "learn me"

Also you have written "basic's" but there is no reason to put an apostrophe between the C and the S

[vehelpfulguy]

After being so blunt, here are some sites to get you going.

Note there are hundreds of sites, just search in Google for Computer security things like that.

http://www.cert.org/homeusers/HomeComputerSecu rity/

http://www.cert.org/

http://www.gocsi.com/

http://www.sans.org/

http://www.itsu.vt.edu/Workshops/Security/inde x.htm

http://www.symantec.com/index.htm

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