How advise/guide rising 11th grade daughter interested in cybersecurity

If you truly want to be good in cybersecurity and not just the “first level support for the security department where you simply follow a script”, you need a breadth of knowledge all the way down to the fundamental way computers work. For languages you’ll have to know ones most people don’t learn anymore like C and assembler (most of Linux and tons of the Linux ecosystem are in C). Then be pretty good at a lot of other ones such as python, bash, SQL, javascript, etc. and will need to understand how an OS works at it lowest levels.

I roll my eyes at the cybersecurity certificates you can get in 6 or 9 months.

IMO you have to start with a Computer Science degree. Just my $.02.

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