Introductions

Hi everyone! I'm a veteran now looking to turn my 'passion into a profession' and work towards some Cybersecurity qualifications. This looks like a great place to get a solid foundation! Ultimately wanting to end up in a risk consultancy role. 

Long life tinkerer, programming from computer magazines at about 7 or 8 with my family Amstrad 464. Back then I think actually got some cheats to work in games by writing code from a magazine (hours) and having to pause the cassette player at the right point (i think). Then the Amiga 500, heady days of workbench 1.3 and deluxe paint iii. From there towards Linux and the mysterious world of man and Bash. What a somehow archaic but at the same time still futuristic invention (imo). Spent time learning whilst studying molecular biology in my Uni days. 

Anyway.. joined Army, did a lot of green and bio-metric stuff abroad for 6 months, and continued to be into computers as a hobbie. Written a few personal projects in C (including Tetris and a Sudoku solver using backtracking algortihm) and like the close to metal stuff.

I'm living in France right now and for the NATO buffs amongst us on a former SHAPE barracks. History of Cyber in general fascinates me also. Hello everyone!