My First Week Learning Offensive Security (Before Hitting the Paywall)

I started learning red team fundamentals on TryHackMe. Here's what I learned before running into premium content limitations.

Day 1: Red Team Basics

• What offensive security actually means
• Learned about dirb tool for directory brute-forcing
• [Explain what dirb does and why it's useful]

Day 2: Blue Team Perspective

• Defense in depth concept
• SOC analyst role
• What SIEM tools do

Day 3: Research Skills

• How to find CVEs and exploits
• Tools: Shodan, Censys, VirusTotal
• GitHub for exploit code

Day 4: Linux Fundamentals

• Commands I learned: ls, cd, cat, grep
• Operators: &&, >, |

The Paywall Problem

TryHackMe's free tier is limited. Switching to OverTheWire (completely free) to continue learning.

Next Week

Starting OverTheWire Bandit challenges. Goal: Complete levels 0-10.