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Hamza details his work experience as a Year 10 student with Gridware in this reflection. A cybersecurity firm that gave him this opportunity and has previously provided similar opportunities to other members. If you’re into cybersecurity and want to know what areas to focus on to get your foot in the door, Hamza’s reflection shines a light on the work he completed during his time there. There’s also a fellow Muslims in Tech member that had a similar experience which you can read all about here. Reflection To stay up to date with the latest in Muslims in Tech and what our members are doing, subscribe to our newsletter.Continue readingHamza’s Work Experience

Yaseen Ahmed, a talented Year 10 student and member of Muslims in tech describes his cybersecurity work experience in his own words. If you’re looking for help finding an internship, reach out to us at info@muslimsintech.org What did you do during work experience? Gridware has a training program for newly hired junior-level penetration testers to get OSCP certified if they are not already. It involves doing several training modules on various websites. The ones that were assigned to me were: Portswigger Academy:Server-Side topics Client-side topics Advanced topics Tryhackme – only did the free rooms: —– SKIPPED ——- The program ended with a capstone project of trying to get the root flag on the HackTheBox machine Haircut and then writing a short writeup on it. Normally this program takes a month to complete, but I ran through it in a week and produced a write-up (attached just below). How was your…Continue readingCybersecurity Work Experience