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A practical, India-focused roadmap to become a Cybersecurity Analyst. Covers fundamentals (networking, Linux, scripting), defensive skills (SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS), threat intelligence, incident response, penetration basics, cloud security, legal & compliance (IT Act & CERT-In), certifications, hands-on labs (CTFs), internships, and how to enter SOC/incident-response/analyst roles in Indian industry and government.
Build core IT fundamentals required for security roles: TCP/IP networking, Linux command line, and scripting (Python/Bash).
Understand OSI/TCP-IP, IP addressing, subnetting, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, basic routing and switching concepts.
Become comfortable with command line, file permissions, process management, basic shell scripting and logs.
Write small scripts to parse logs, extract IOCs, automate repetitive tasks and query APIs.
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