Want to learn the best setup for your home lab and acquiring SOC Analyst skills?

From Zero to SOC Analyst: Build This Home Lab & Prove Your Skills! #homelabsetup #cybersecuritylab #incidentresponse

Are you looking to get into cybersecurity as a SOC Analyst but don't have enough hands-on experience? In this video, I show you how to build a complete home lab using free tools like Kali Linux, Security Onion, and more

In this video i will walk through how i would start my cybersecurity career if i had to start it from scratch in 2026!

I have been asked many times to show full self learning path for cybersecurity career, we cover how to acquire relevant skills, learning networking, operating systems, building home lab, tryhackme practice and building your CV all the way to how to apply for jobs

You want to work in cyber security, but you are not technical? Then GRC is for you!

In this video we will cover the full cybersecurity career roadmap into GRC field, covering the most important skills, certifications, cv and job applications. We will cover transferable skills and cover all the important knowledge that you need to become successful

£120K+ salary. 2 certs. 5 projects. The cloud security engineer roadmap nobody shares. Cloud security engineering is the highest-paid career path in cybersecurity right now — and the most understaffed. In this video, I'm giving you the complete step-by-step blueprint to go from absolute zero to landing your first cloud security engineer role in under 10 months. No degree needed. No bootcamp. Under £800 total.

I'm a CISO at a financial services company and I've built cloud security programmes from scratch. This is the exact roadmap I'd follow if I was starting over in 2026.

Most people who try to become a penetration tester will fail. Here's how you won't. Penetration testing has the highest barrier to entry of any cybersecurity career. The OSCP is a 24-hour exam. The job market demands experience you don't have yet. And 90% of "how to become a hacker" content on YouTube skips the hard truth.

I'm a CISO who hires penetration testers. This is the brutally honest, phase-by-phase roadmap I'd follow if I was starting from zero in 2026. Foundations, hacking platforms, home lab, certifications, portfolio, CV strategy, and the job hunt tactics that work when you have zero professional experience. 12–18 months. £1,870–£2,270. One of the highest-paid careers in cybersecurity. If you're serious, this is everything you need.

A developer pushed code. No security scan. Three weeks later, a £2M breach. Fix this.

DevSecOps engineers make that scenario impossible. They embed security into every stage of the software pipeline — so vulnerabilities get caught in seconds, not weeks. And they're some of the highest-paid professionals in cybersecurity: £70–90K UK, $119–177K US, with a market growing 24% year on year.

I'm a CISO. This is the complete, phase-by-phase blueprint to become a DevSecOps engineer from scratch. Foundations, CI/CD pipeline security, container and Kubernetes hardening, threat modelling, developer security training, certifications, portfolio projects, and how to get hired. Every tool mentioned is free and open source. Total cost: £350–£1,000. If you can secure a pipeline, you can get a job. This video shows you how to do both.

📌 PHASE 1 — FOUNDATIONS (FREE):

🐍 Automate the Boring Stuff with Python — https://automatetheboringstuff.com

🎓 Professor Messer Security+ SY0-701 — Free on YouTube 🔟 OWASP Top 10 — https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten 🐧 KillerCoda (Docker, Kubernetes, Linux labs) — https://killercoda.com

☁️ AWS Free Tier — https://aws.amazon.com/free

🐳 Docker Getting Started — https://docs.docker.com/get-started

📌 PHASE 2 — PIPELINE SECURITY TOOLS (ALL FREE):

🔍 SonarQube Community Edition (SAST) — https://sonarqube.org

🔍 Semgrep (SAST) — https://semgrep.dev

📦 Snyk Free Tier (SCA + containers) — https://snyk.io

📦 OWASP Dependency-Check (SCA) — https://owasp.org

🌐 OWASP ZAP (DAST) — https://zaproxy.org

🔑 GitLeaks (secrets detection) — https://github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks

🔑 Trufflehog (secrets detection) — https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog

📐 OWASP Threat Modelling Playbook — https://owasp.org

📐 Microsoft Threat Modelling Tool — Free download

📌 PHASE 3 — CONTAINER & KUBERNETES SECURITY (FREE): 🛡️ Trivy (container + IaC scanner) — https://trivy.dev

🛡️ Falco (runtime security) — https://falco.org

🛡️ Kyverno (Kubernetes policy engine) — https://kyverno.io

🔐 HashiCorp Vault (secrets management) — https://vaultproject.io

🛡️ Checkov (IaC security scanner) — https://checkov.io

📋 OWASP Kubernetes Top 10 — https://owasp.org 📌

CERTIFICATIONS:

🏆 CompTIA Security+ — https://comptia.org (~£350)

🏆 Certified DevSecOps Professional (CDP) — https://practical-devsecops.com (~£600)

🏆 CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist) — https://training.linuxfoundation.org