Week 4 Reflectionguided Reading 101

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The Bengals are still searching for their first win of the season, and for the third week in a row, they are facing a team coming off a very disappointing loss.

The Jaguars lost to the Dolphins on Thursday Night Football last week, and their performance has had some second guessing their early showing this season. Can the Bengals take advantage with their return home?

The biggest story of the week might be about who's in the stands instead of who's on the field. This will be the first game of the season in Cincinnati where a small percentage of fans will actually be in Paul Brown Stadium. It will be the first time rookie quarterback Joe Burrow gets to play in front of his own fan base, and he surely won't disappoint. The rookie has had two very impressive games in a row.

Unit 1.4 Unit One Week Four Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources. Please email me with any corrections needed. I work on these late at night and make many mistakes.

Hopefully this week the offense is finally able to put the plays together to put away an opponent. The past two weeks, settling for field goals too often has cost this team two close games. It should also get the terrible taste of last week's tie out of everyone's mouth.

1. This week working in a pair has helped me realise I probably work best in small groups which will be key in aiding to my future learning. Also, the course has helped me broaden the use of available resources, for instance this weeks assignment, doing further research to either add to the critique or to affirm that my own argument was valid.
2. Helping Inspire the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals. Back to School – Lessons From Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 1. Developing Confidence – Lessons From Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 2. Asking Questions – Lessons From Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 3.
3. Italian 101 – Week 4. Published on October 28, 2019 November 11, 2019 by Daisy Martinez. Vocab, Vocab, Vocab. I practice saying the words and reading the words.

Meanwhile, the Jaguars went from coming into the season looking like the most likely landing spot for Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence to looking like they may actually have a guy in Gardner Minshew II. That is what made the dud the offense put together against a very poor and banged up Dolphins defense all the more confusing. Can he and the Jaguars turn it around this week?

Everything you need to know for when the Bengals take on the Jaguars:

Game: Cincinnati Bengals (0-2-1) vs. Jacksonville Jaguars (1-2)

Date/Time: Oct. 4th, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. EST

Location: Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio

Millennium 4 beyond sunset download torrent 64-bit. Series Leader: The Jaguars lead the series 13-9

Streak: The Jaguars have won the past two games

Coaches vs. Opponent: Zac Taylor: (0-1). Doug Marrone (2-1)

Television: The game will air on CBS-TV. In the Bengals' home region, it will be carried by WKRC-TV (Ch. 12) in Cincinnati, WHIO-TV (Ch. 7) in Dayton and on WKYT-TV (Ch. 27) in Lexington. Download game miss popularity game. Broadcasters are Tom McCarthy (play-by-play) and Jay Feely (analyst).

Radio Broadcast: The game will air on the Bengals Radio Network, led by Cincinnati flagship stations WLW-AM (700), WCKY-AM (ESPN 1530; all sports) and WEBN-FM (102.7). Broadcasters are Dan Hoard (play-by-play) and Dave Lapham (analyst).

Week 4 Reflectionguided Reading 101 Lesson

SB Nation Jaguars' site: Big Cat Country

Weather: Mid 50's, possible light rain and overcast [NFL weather]

Guided Reading Process

Odds: Bengals, -3.5 [Odds Shark]

Bengals notes

• Joe Burrow passed for 312 yards and two touchdowns without an interceptions for career-high 105.5 passer rating last week. He aims for his third in a row with at least 300 passing yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions and a passer rating of at least 90. He ranks second in the NFL with 91 completions, most by a rookie quarterback in his first three career games in NFL history.
• Joe Mixon had 65 scrimmage yards (49 rushing and 16 receiving) last week. He aims for his fifth in a row against the AFC South and third in a row against the Jaguars with a touchdown. Mixon has 403 scrimmage yards (134.3 per game) and two rushing touchdowns in his past three at home. Giovani Bernard had season-high 55 receiving yards in Week 3.
• Tyler Boyd led the team with 10 catches for 125 yards last week, his third game with at least 10 catches since 2019, tied second-most among wide receivers. He aims for his third in a row with at least seven catches and 70 receiving yards. Boyd had five catches for 55 yards in last the meeting. Tee Higgins caught his first pair of touchdowns of his career last week.
• Carlos Dunlap led the team with nine tackles and had a tackle for a loss and a pass deflection in Week 3. He has sacks in two of his past three against the Jaguars. He has 7.5 sacks, four passes defended and two forced fumbles in his past five games at home. Carl Lawson had two sacks and a froced fumble last week. He has five sacks in his past four games. He aims for his third game in a row at home with a sack. Sam Hubbard had a sack in Week 3. He had two passes defended in the last meeting.

Jaguars notes

• Gardner Minshew II completed 30 of 42 passes (71.4 percent) for 275 yards and rushed for a season-high 22 yards last week, his third-career game with a completion percentage of at least 70. He passed for 255 yards and a touchdown while rushing for 48 yards in the last meeting with the Bengals. Minshew is one of three quarterbacks in the AFC with a passer rating of at least 100 (101.3) and a completion percentage of 70 (73.8) this season.
• Rookie running back James Robinson had a career-high 129 scrimmage yards (83 receiving and 46 rushing) and two rushing touchdowns last week. He aims for his third game in a row with at least 100 scrimmage yards and a rushing touchdown. Robinson ranks second among rookies with 339 scrimmage yards, most by an undrafted player in his first three career games in the common draft era. Chris Thompson had a season-high five catches in Week 3.
• D.J. Chark had 53 receiving yards in the last meeting. He has nine receiving touchdowns since 2019, third-most among AFC wide receivers. Rookie wide receiver Laviska Shenault had a career-high five catches last week. He ranks tied for fourth among rookies with 11 catches this season. Keenan Cole had a touchdown catch in the last meeting. Chris Conley had 83 receiving yards in the last meeting. Tyler Eifert had 185 catches for 2,152 yards and 24 touchdowns in seven seasons (2013-19) with the Bengals. This is his first season with the Jaguars.
• Myles Jack aims for his fourth game in a row with at least 11 tackles. He had two passes defended and an interception the last time these teams met. Jack has a pass defended in two of his past three games against the AFC North. He is tied for the NFL lead with 33 tackles. Joe Schobert had eight tackles and a tackle for a loss in Week 3. Josh Allen had two tackles for a loss and his first sack of the season last week. He had two tackles for a loss and a sack in the last meeting. Cornerback C.J. Henderson ranks second among rookies with four passes defended this season.

As I had mentioned previously, this year, I'm going back to school. Not to take classes, but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a decade ago and thought it was interesting, so I was excited to give it another go. Additionally, after a friend mentioned that their kid wanted to learn Python, I developed an Intro to Python aimed at high school students that I'm teaching weekly. I thought that this would be good fodder for the State of Security. So, whenever I have something interesting to discuss, expect to find it here.

When I taught a decade ago, one of my biggest surprises was how much students wanted to be spoon fed information. One of my greatest joys when I got into computers in the late 90s is still one of my favourite things – learning something new. I love being presented a challenge and digging into it. When I developed the courses I wrote 10+ years ago, they were filled with challenges. The students were given a problem and enough information to point them in the right direction, but they didn't know how to actually solve the problem. They wanted to learn by having everything handed to them, instead of figuring it out by themselves.

This time around, I developed the college course the same way… I expect students to research and problem solve in order to complete my labs. With my high school course, however, I spoon feed them everything, they learn from making mistakes in typing out the code and watching how the code works. I think that this makes sense as I have very different expectations between high school and college students. I was surprised, however, to learn from my college students that they had courses where that was exactly what they were expected to do… take code and type it out.

Given this, I thought that this week, we could talk about a couple of times recently that I had the opportunity to really do some research and the surprises I had in working with my students. This should provide some insight into what I feel are reasonable investments in problem solving and demonstrate how one could expect to be challenged in cybersecurity. If someone were to read these stories and feel like they'd hate their life with all of these, they probably aren't interested in a career in cybersecurity.

Bad Neighbor

Guided Reflection Protocol

One of the big ones for me was the release of CVE-2020-16898 (Bad Neighbor) on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. I had not worked with ICMP6 packets before and I was really excited to dig in and write some Python to send packets. I didn't end up reproducing the issue on Tuesday night, there were higher priority items, but I did spend some time familiarizing myself with the code path to get a better understanding of the problem. A colleague and I spent several hours discussing based on the limited information available and it was a fun research task.

While I didn't get to a conclusion, I still had a great learning experience and added a new skill to my toolbox, which is really the most important thing personally.

Do You Have the Time?

Guided Reading Level Chart

I wanted to wrap up my high school course (which was still in development) because a few of my college students were struggling, so I offered to spend some time with them on Saturday.

We were using the high school Python course, which meant that I needed to finish it and I hadn't finished the socket programming aspects of the material. I thought long and hard about what I wanted to teach. Most of my network programming has involved DNS, SSH, or HTTP and I wanted a simple UDP option (I figured DNS pointers may be too difficult for high school students to parse). I realized that I had not read the NTP RFC and decided that I would tackle NTP.

I spent Friday night reading the RFC and creating a simple coding challenge to query the current time from an NTP server using just the Python socket module. It was one of the best Friday nights I've had in a while, it was just a lot of fun.

WMI and Me

For my last example, I want to talk about a small video I recorded for my students on Saturday morning. I talked about understanding requirements and the expected outcomes of your code and how important a pen and paper can be in problem solving.

Personally, I draw out every piece of code I want to write. I make sure that I understand the requirements of the code, the expectations I (or others) may have on the program, and what my output is going to look like. So, I wrote up a quick piece of code using the Python WMI module. While writing the code, I realized that my wmi_object was using properties to access the various pieces of data returned from a WQL query and I was curious about where those properties were stored. I ended up using the dir() function a lot as I dug into various methods of the wmi_object and saw values change from None to containing data as I moved through my code. How it works and why it works that way doesn't matter… but at 8AM on a Saturday, it was a great way to enjoy a cup of coffee.

Problem Solving and Cybersecurity

So, why did you just read 500 words on what I did last week? It wasn't because I wanted to brag about what I learned… well that's not the only reason.

Instead, it's because everything you do in cybersecurity involves problem solving. If you do not like a challenge; if you do not want to solve problems with giant unknowns, then cybersecurity is probably not the career for you. I don't think that we make this clear as an industry. There's a lot of problem solving at every step of your career and if you aren't interested in problem solving, then you probably won't enjoy yourself.

Instead of spoon feeding cybersecurity students, it is important that we push them and challenge them. When we hire new graduates, it is important that we throw them into the fire rather than coddling them. People can learn problem solving, but if it isn't something they were expecting or want to learn, they need to know that early on.

Problem Solving and the Weeds

This doesn't change a problem I discussed previously… don't get stuck in the weeds. You need to know when you are beat on a problem and really this could be considered a continuation of that discussion. How long does it take to identify that you are stuck in the weeds? It's something that you learn over time. I will use an example from the classroom though.

I had a student turn in a lab and mention to me that it took them 11 hours to figure it out. They stuck at it and worked through the problems. Did I expect students to spend that much time on this lab? No, I figured it would be 4-6 hours of work, but they completed the task and that is awesome. That's someone that would make a good employee in my opinion. Alternatively, I had a student submit a lab with a comment that they tried for two hours and couldn't finish it. To me, that's indicative of someone who doesn't like problem solving or gets frustrated easily and maybe doesn't realize where the courses they are taking will lead them. That wasn't getting stuck in the weeds, that was giving up on a challenge.

Week 4 Reflectionguided Reading 101 Answers

Luckily, problem solving is something that can be learned, it just takes time and requires that you learn to deal with your frustration and redirect it into a positive result.

Unsolicited Advice

Perhaps, if you are still reading, this advice is solicited, but I wanted to share my thoughts with everyone on this type of problem.

Professors

The Jaguars lost to the Dolphins on Thursday Night Football last week, and their performance has had some second guessing their early showing this season. Can the Bengals take advantage with their return home?

The biggest story of the week might be about who's in the stands instead of who's on the field. This will be the first game of the season in Cincinnati where a small percentage of fans will actually be in Paul Brown Stadium. It will be the first time rookie quarterback Joe Burrow gets to play in front of his own fan base, and he surely won't disappoint. The rookie has had two very impressive games in a row.

Unit 1.4 Unit One Week Four Spelling resources, vocabulary resources, writing resources. Please email me with any corrections needed. I work on these late at night and make many mistakes.

Hopefully this week the offense is finally able to put the plays together to put away an opponent. The past two weeks, settling for field goals too often has cost this team two close games. It should also get the terrible taste of last week's tie out of everyone's mouth.

1. This week working in a pair has helped me realise I probably work best in small groups which will be key in aiding to my future learning. Also, the course has helped me broaden the use of available resources, for instance this weeks assignment, doing further research to either add to the critique or to affirm that my own argument was valid.
2. Helping Inspire the Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals. Back to School – Lessons From Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 1. Developing Confidence – Lessons From Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 2. Asking Questions – Lessons From Teaching Cybersecurity: Week 3.
3. Italian 101 – Week 4. Published on October 28, 2019 November 11, 2019 by Daisy Martinez. Vocab, Vocab, Vocab. I practice saying the words and reading the words.

Meanwhile, the Jaguars went from coming into the season looking like the most likely landing spot for Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence to looking like they may actually have a guy in Gardner Minshew II. That is what made the dud the offense put together against a very poor and banged up Dolphins defense all the more confusing. Can he and the Jaguars turn it around this week?

Everything you need to know for when the Bengals take on the Jaguars:

Game: Cincinnati Bengals (0-2-1) vs. Jacksonville Jaguars (1-2)

Date/Time: Oct. 4th, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. EST

Location: Paul Brown Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio

Millennium 4 beyond sunset download torrent 64-bit. Series Leader: The Jaguars lead the series 13-9

Streak: The Jaguars have won the past two games

Coaches vs. Opponent: Zac Taylor: (0-1). Doug Marrone (2-1)

Television: The game will air on CBS-TV. In the Bengals' home region, it will be carried by WKRC-TV (Ch. 12) in Cincinnati, WHIO-TV (Ch. 7) in Dayton and on WKYT-TV (Ch. 27) in Lexington. Download game miss popularity game. Broadcasters are Tom McCarthy (play-by-play) and Jay Feely (analyst).

Radio Broadcast: The game will air on the Bengals Radio Network, led by Cincinnati flagship stations WLW-AM (700), WCKY-AM (ESPN 1530; all sports) and WEBN-FM (102.7). Broadcasters are Dan Hoard (play-by-play) and Dave Lapham (analyst).

Week 4 Reflectionguided Reading 101 Lesson

SB Nation Jaguars' site: Big Cat Country

Weather: Mid 50's, possible light rain and overcast [NFL weather]

Guided Reading Process

Odds: Bengals, -3.5 [Odds Shark]

Bengals notes

• Joe Burrow passed for 312 yards and two touchdowns without an interceptions for career-high 105.5 passer rating last week. He aims for his third in a row with at least 300 passing yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions and a passer rating of at least 90. He ranks second in the NFL with 91 completions, most by a rookie quarterback in his first three career games in NFL history.
• Joe Mixon had 65 scrimmage yards (49 rushing and 16 receiving) last week. He aims for his fifth in a row against the AFC South and third in a row against the Jaguars with a touchdown. Mixon has 403 scrimmage yards (134.3 per game) and two rushing touchdowns in his past three at home. Giovani Bernard had season-high 55 receiving yards in Week 3.
• Tyler Boyd led the team with 10 catches for 125 yards last week, his third game with at least 10 catches since 2019, tied second-most among wide receivers. He aims for his third in a row with at least seven catches and 70 receiving yards. Boyd had five catches for 55 yards in last the meeting. Tee Higgins caught his first pair of touchdowns of his career last week.
• Carlos Dunlap led the team with nine tackles and had a tackle for a loss and a pass deflection in Week 3. He has sacks in two of his past three against the Jaguars. He has 7.5 sacks, four passes defended and two forced fumbles in his past five games at home. Carl Lawson had two sacks and a froced fumble last week. He has five sacks in his past four games. He aims for his third game in a row at home with a sack. Sam Hubbard had a sack in Week 3. He had two passes defended in the last meeting.

Jaguars notes

• Gardner Minshew II completed 30 of 42 passes (71.4 percent) for 275 yards and rushed for a season-high 22 yards last week, his third-career game with a completion percentage of at least 70. He passed for 255 yards and a touchdown while rushing for 48 yards in the last meeting with the Bengals. Minshew is one of three quarterbacks in the AFC with a passer rating of at least 100 (101.3) and a completion percentage of 70 (73.8) this season.
• Rookie running back James Robinson had a career-high 129 scrimmage yards (83 receiving and 46 rushing) and two rushing touchdowns last week. He aims for his third game in a row with at least 100 scrimmage yards and a rushing touchdown. Robinson ranks second among rookies with 339 scrimmage yards, most by an undrafted player in his first three career games in the common draft era. Chris Thompson had a season-high five catches in Week 3.
• D.J. Chark had 53 receiving yards in the last meeting. He has nine receiving touchdowns since 2019, third-most among AFC wide receivers. Rookie wide receiver Laviska Shenault had a career-high five catches last week. He ranks tied for fourth among rookies with 11 catches this season. Keenan Cole had a touchdown catch in the last meeting. Chris Conley had 83 receiving yards in the last meeting. Tyler Eifert had 185 catches for 2,152 yards and 24 touchdowns in seven seasons (2013-19) with the Bengals. This is his first season with the Jaguars.
• Myles Jack aims for his fourth game in a row with at least 11 tackles. He had two passes defended and an interception the last time these teams met. Jack has a pass defended in two of his past three games against the AFC North. He is tied for the NFL lead with 33 tackles. Joe Schobert had eight tackles and a tackle for a loss in Week 3. Josh Allen had two tackles for a loss and his first sack of the season last week. He had two tackles for a loss and a sack in the last meeting. Cornerback C.J. Henderson ranks second among rookies with four passes defended this season.

As I had mentioned previously, this year, I'm going back to school. Not to take classes, but to teach a course at my alma mater, Fanshawe College. I did this about a decade ago and thought it was interesting, so I was excited to give it another go. Additionally, after a friend mentioned that their kid wanted to learn Python, I developed an Intro to Python aimed at high school students that I'm teaching weekly. I thought that this would be good fodder for the State of Security. So, whenever I have something interesting to discuss, expect to find it here.

When I taught a decade ago, one of my biggest surprises was how much students wanted to be spoon fed information. One of my greatest joys when I got into computers in the late 90s is still one of my favourite things – learning something new. I love being presented a challenge and digging into it. When I developed the courses I wrote 10+ years ago, they were filled with challenges. The students were given a problem and enough information to point them in the right direction, but they didn't know how to actually solve the problem. They wanted to learn by having everything handed to them, instead of figuring it out by themselves.

This time around, I developed the college course the same way… I expect students to research and problem solve in order to complete my labs. With my high school course, however, I spoon feed them everything, they learn from making mistakes in typing out the code and watching how the code works. I think that this makes sense as I have very different expectations between high school and college students. I was surprised, however, to learn from my college students that they had courses where that was exactly what they were expected to do… take code and type it out.

Given this, I thought that this week, we could talk about a couple of times recently that I had the opportunity to really do some research and the surprises I had in working with my students. This should provide some insight into what I feel are reasonable investments in problem solving and demonstrate how one could expect to be challenged in cybersecurity. If someone were to read these stories and feel like they'd hate their life with all of these, they probably aren't interested in a career in cybersecurity.

Bad Neighbor

Guided Reflection Protocol

One of the big ones for me was the release of CVE-2020-16898 (Bad Neighbor) on Microsoft's Patch Tuesday. I had not worked with ICMP6 packets before and I was really excited to dig in and write some Python to send packets. I didn't end up reproducing the issue on Tuesday night, there were higher priority items, but I did spend some time familiarizing myself with the code path to get a better understanding of the problem. A colleague and I spent several hours discussing based on the limited information available and it was a fun research task.

While I didn't get to a conclusion, I still had a great learning experience and added a new skill to my toolbox, which is really the most important thing personally.

Do You Have the Time?

Guided Reading Level Chart

I wanted to wrap up my high school course (which was still in development) because a few of my college students were struggling, so I offered to spend some time with them on Saturday.

We were using the high school Python course, which meant that I needed to finish it and I hadn't finished the socket programming aspects of the material. I thought long and hard about what I wanted to teach. Most of my network programming has involved DNS, SSH, or HTTP and I wanted a simple UDP option (I figured DNS pointers may be too difficult for high school students to parse). I realized that I had not read the NTP RFC and decided that I would tackle NTP.

I spent Friday night reading the RFC and creating a simple coding challenge to query the current time from an NTP server using just the Python socket module. It was one of the best Friday nights I've had in a while, it was just a lot of fun.

WMI and Me

For my last example, I want to talk about a small video I recorded for my students on Saturday morning. I talked about understanding requirements and the expected outcomes of your code and how important a pen and paper can be in problem solving.

Personally, I draw out every piece of code I want to write. I make sure that I understand the requirements of the code, the expectations I (or others) may have on the program, and what my output is going to look like. So, I wrote up a quick piece of code using the Python WMI module. While writing the code, I realized that my wmi_object was using properties to access the various pieces of data returned from a WQL query and I was curious about where those properties were stored. I ended up using the dir() function a lot as I dug into various methods of the wmi_object and saw values change from None to containing data as I moved through my code. How it works and why it works that way doesn't matter… but at 8AM on a Saturday, it was a great way to enjoy a cup of coffee.

Problem Solving and Cybersecurity

So, why did you just read 500 words on what I did last week? It wasn't because I wanted to brag about what I learned… well that's not the only reason.

Instead, it's because everything you do in cybersecurity involves problem solving. If you do not like a challenge; if you do not want to solve problems with giant unknowns, then cybersecurity is probably not the career for you. I don't think that we make this clear as an industry. There's a lot of problem solving at every step of your career and if you aren't interested in problem solving, then you probably won't enjoy yourself.

Instead of spoon feeding cybersecurity students, it is important that we push them and challenge them. When we hire new graduates, it is important that we throw them into the fire rather than coddling them. People can learn problem solving, but if it isn't something they were expecting or want to learn, they need to know that early on.

Problem Solving and the Weeds

This doesn't change a problem I discussed previously… don't get stuck in the weeds. You need to know when you are beat on a problem and really this could be considered a continuation of that discussion. How long does it take to identify that you are stuck in the weeds? It's something that you learn over time. I will use an example from the classroom though.

I had a student turn in a lab and mention to me that it took them 11 hours to figure it out. They stuck at it and worked through the problems. Did I expect students to spend that much time on this lab? No, I figured it would be 4-6 hours of work, but they completed the task and that is awesome. That's someone that would make a good employee in my opinion. Alternatively, I had a student submit a lab with a comment that they tried for two hours and couldn't finish it. To me, that's indicative of someone who doesn't like problem solving or gets frustrated easily and maybe doesn't realize where the courses they are taking will lead them. That wasn't getting stuck in the weeds, that was giving up on a challenge.

Week 4 Reflectionguided Reading 101 Answers

Luckily, problem solving is something that can be learned, it just takes time and requires that you learn to deal with your frustration and redirect it into a positive result.

Unsolicited Advice

Perhaps, if you are still reading, this advice is solicited, but I wanted to share my thoughts with everyone on this type of problem.

Professors

Please! Please! Please make sure you are challenging your students. If you are spoon feeding them material and not challenging them, you are not helping them. If you are not making them solve problems and think outside the box, you are setting them back in their career. I know that it isn't fun to deal with complaining students or their parents and it is awful for post-secondary institutions to lose money from lower enrollment in later semesters, but as an educator, you should have one goal… to prepare your student for life after school. If they can't solve problems and think critically, you have failed.

Students

Don't complain when something is 'too hard.' There's no one to complain to when you get a job. Leverage the internet, then your peers, and then your professor. When things blow up in the real world, you don't go running to your boss every time, you work with your colleagues to figure it out. Get used to that now when you have a place where your failures have less impact. You should be challenged and if you aren't being challenged, question your professors, your program coordinator, and your dean. Ask them why they aren't fully preparing you for the real world.

Employers

When you interview, ask problem solving questions. See how they approach the problem and how they react when they can't solve it. If they do solve it, ask a harder question. If they lack problem solving skills, provide that feedback, explain where they need to grow. If you hire someone, let them stumble in the early days on the job. Don't hand them the answers, let them develop their troubleshooting skills, even if it takes two weeks to complete a one week task. As long as there's no deadlines and there's not a huge impact to letting the project slip, give them some extra time, but also identify when they start spinning their tired and get stuck in the weeds, that's when you should step in and help… but not before.

At the end of the day, critical thinking and problem solving are key in many professions, but they are critical in cybersecurity. Make sure that you are prepared to struggle, that you are ready for the difficult road ahead, and that you understand the pressure you will face.

Not everything will come easy, but honestly the hardest things are often the best. I had so much fun learning the NTP RFC and digging into the underlying functionality of the Python WMI module. That was really fulfilling work. If you aren't finding yourself fulfilled and excited by the prospect of a new challenge, think twice about the career you are looking to enter.

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