Diploma Graduate Shares Three-Year Tech Journey That Led Him to Cybersecurity

A computer engineering diploma graduate has shared how three years of exploring multiple technology domains — including web development and AI — eventually led him to focus on cybersecurity. Rather than viewing his habit of broadly sampling technologies as a flaw, he now sees it as a process that helped him identify his need to deeply understand systems. Now three months into cybersecurity, he has been studying topics such as web authentication attacks, session hijacking, JWT vulnerabilities, and network offensive techniques using tools like Burp Suite. He describes his learning approach as deliberately slow and thorough, refusing to advance to a new topic until he has fully connected all underlying concepts. He published the account on DEV Community to connect with others on a similar path and build a peer learning network.