Getting started in cybersecurity - Master's at Universidad Nebrija

“I want to learn cybersecurity.” People tell me every week, and I almost always answer the same thing: learn what exactly? Because this field has so many flavours that saying you want to work in cybersecurity is like saying you want to work in a hotel. Great, but a hotel has a thousand different jobs. That’s what I discuss in this episode with Ruben Fernandez Nieto, professor of Introduction to Cybersecurity on Universidad Nebrija’s Master’s and the first teacher you’ll meet if you sign up.

We continue the series already opened by Xavier, on ethical hacking, and Enrique, explaining what the Master’s is like from the inside. Ruben defends something I repeat a lot: before you specialise you need common foundations. It doesn’t matter whether you later lean towards offensive security or risk management, without that base you won’t move confidently through any of the areas. And he says it from experience, because his career is exactly that: a computer science degree, twenty years of consulting touching everything from support for financial audits to risk management, and today heading up cybersecurity for an organisation. Trying many things at first to find out which one you truly like. If you’re wondering where to get into this, this conversation is a good map to keep you from getting lost before you even start.