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🚀 The Right Way to Learn Cybersecurity - A Complete Roadmap for Mastery

  • Writer: Osher Assor
    Osher Assor
  • Jun 6
  • 2 min read

Learning cybersecurity is easy.

Understanding it deeply - that’s the real challenge.

Many people jump into the field through bootcamps, online courses, or CTFs. But in my opinion, the only real path to becoming a true expert is by first building solid technical foundations.

Without them, no tool, certification, or hacking lab will give you the depth you need to truly thrive in this field.



🧠 So What Should You Know Before Learning Cyber?

  • How does a computer actually work? CPU, RAM, BIOS?

  • What does an operating system do behind the scenes?

  • What’s a protocol, and how does a packet flow through a network?

  • How does code behave in memory? What is a pointer?

  • What are virtualization, containers, and filesystems?

  • What’s the difference between Linux, Windows, AD, Cloud, and local domains?


Only once you understand these topics can you truly dive into:

offensive security, DFIR, secure development, SOC, GRC, AI security, and much more.



📚 I Created the Most Detailed Cybersecurity Learning Syllabus Ever Written

Over the years, I’ve taught, tested, mentored, and worked with dozens of people in the industry.

To help anyone starting out, I built the most comprehensive roadmap I could a syllabus that covers everything from fundamentals to advanced cyber disciplines.

The syllabus is divided into two parts:

1. The Technical Foundations Hardware, OS internals, networking, programming, protocols, cloud, virtualization.

2. The Security Disciplines Penetration testing, threat modeling, secure coding, GRC, SOC, Malware Analysis, Reversing, AI attacks, Mobile, RF, Cloud, Hardware, and more.



🛠️ Learn at Your Own Pace - It’s Open and Free

This isn’t a course or a textbook. It’s a structured path — a “map” showing what you need to learn, in what order, and with what level of depth.

💡 One of the most important values in cybersecurity is independent learning.

Every term or topic in this document can - and should - be explored further using: Google, YouTube, blogs, or even tools like ChatGPT.



🔗 Explore the Zero2Hero Syllabus

Full syllabus available here:👉 https://github.com/osherassor/Zero2Hero

This is a living, evolving project, designed to grow with the industry and community.



🧭 Final Thoughts: The Right Way to Learn Cybersecurity

✅ Start with deep technical understanding

✅ Learn how things work under the hood

✅ Build knowledge step by step

✅ Embrace real-world practice

✅ Stay curious and share what you learn

 
 
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