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How I'd Approach College for Cybersecurity in 2026

The degree isn't the destination. Four years of evidence is.
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Stop Watching Cybersecurity Tutorials. Start Building These 5 Projects.
The summer project list I’d hand myself if I were starting over: network analysis, containers, password managers, Kubernetes, and a home SOC.
 • Day Johnson
I Upgraded My Cybersecurity Homelab From Proxmox 8 to Proxmox 9
And almost broke everything...
 • Day Johnson
How I Access My Cybersecurity Homelab From Anywhere
No port forwarding, no exposed Proxmox, no exposed SSH. Just Tailscale, RustDesk, and a lesson I learned in a hotel room in D.C.
 • Day Johnson
Marriage Expanded My Attack Surface
Deploying Wazuh agents across every endpoint in the house: MacBooks, Proxmox, and a Windows box that almost didn’t make the video.
 • Day Johnson
The Cost Of Ambition
What five months of unanswered questions taught me about ambition, faith, AI, and the edge that got me here.
 • Day Johnson
Claude Mythos, Project Glasswing, and the New Defender Advantage
This is truly the end of cybersecurity. Allegedly.
 • Day Johnson
Are Humans Really the Weakest Link?
My attempt at dispelling this notorious rhetoric, and an introduction to human-centered security.
 • Day Johnson
Cybersecurity Engineering Career Lessons You Won’t Get in Certification Courses
Lessons in Security Engineering from Jason Chan’s High-Velocity Framework (and My Own Battles in the Field).
 • Day Johnson
The 5 Cybersecurity Engineer Archetypes (and Why You Should Know Yours)
whoami?
 • Day Johnson
Cyberwox Unplugged
Cyberwox Unplugged
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