What should a person who wants to connect life with Information Security do?

Question

IT education

Hey Habr! At the moment I am studying in the tenth grade, I have already decided on the choice of my future specialty - Information Security of computer networks (and everything connected with them). At the moment I am preparing for the proverbial USE and obtaining a diploma.
The main question for me at the moment is how I can "start preparing" for my future profession. That is, should I start watching courses on System Administration, delve into Computer Sience, or generally smear myself with Stroustrups and find out what real OOP is? These questions are related to the understanding that a diploma does not give you realprofessional knowledge and they will have to be obtained outside the walls of the university. That is, the logic is that if I now begin to learn the basics of my future profession, then I can get some kind of experience for the future. But the question "How can I start getting it?" remains open.

Answer 1

First of all, you need to learn how to search for information.
Both with the help of search engines, and the one that lies right in front of your eyes.
Whether for the "information security" tag, or for the "more educated IT" tag, here, right on this site, there are at least a dozen questions "how to log in via ibe" in the last month alone.
In general, I do not recommend aiming directly at the ibe.
It is necessary either to seriously master programming - "to be overlaid with ostriches" (which, however, has nothing to do with OOP, not to mention the fact that OOP, in turn, has nothing to do with ibe). Only, of course, not the fashionable Python language, but hardcore - C, assembler, working with memory, debuggers - that's all. Something that has to do with the actual viruses, hacking, etc.
Or networking. Go to some accounting department as an enikey worker, learn how to compress cables, grow slowly, learn DNS, routing, tisipi, active directory - in general, go through the networks.
And then, having at least some real baggage, move to the coveted ibe.
Well, or understand that all this is not yours, and get a job as a manager in the Euroset, and tell the girls in the cafe that you are a very, very large and very, very secret specialist in ibe. And for all questions, make a mysterious face
and say only one word - NDA. This works too.