Breaking Into Cyber: A 20-Year-Old's Guide to Ethical Hacking and Identity Security

What if the best way to defend a business is to learn how to break into it?

In this episode of Radio Logic, we sit down with Samuel, a 20-year-old placement student from Coventry University, one of the only UK universities teaching ethical hacking. Samuel shares how he found cyber during lockdown, why he chose the attacker's mindset, and what it's really like rotating through pen testing, identity, SOC, and governance teams at FSP.

We dig into:

• Why cyber is a huge field, not one job
• The 4.8 million person gap in cyber talent and what it means for newcomers
• How AI and deepfakes are reshaping social engineering threats
• Why your social posts could put your career at risk
• Free routes into cyber (no degree required): Try Hack Me, Hack The Box, and more

Samuel's big message? Stay curious. The exploit might take months to find, but the door is open to anyone willing to poke around.

New to identity and security? This one's for you.