Chapter 2.9.1

Tier 2—Security Facilitator—Story

Keywords

education
training
life
origin story
career path
entry level
security facilitator

Jimmy Vo

My story begins at age 10, where I received my first computer. In that day, it was a top-of-the-line Dell, with a blazing 333 MHz with 64MiB of RAM running Windows 98. I ended up spending a lot of time in front of the computer, mostly waiting for an AOL dial-in number that wasn’t busy. Since then, I was fascinated by computers, taking them apart, making webpages, playing games and various geek activities. I didn’t do anything remarkable like many other information security professionals did when they were younger like write crazy applications or break into something they weren’t supposed to. Being ...

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