https://joe.stevensen.net/tech/Recent content in Tech on Joe StevensenHugoenhttps://joe.stevensen.net/tech/appsec/Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://joe.stevensen.net/tech/appsec/<h1 id="how-to-get-into-appsec">How to Get Into AppSec<a class="anchor" href="#how-to-get-into-appsec">#</a></h1> <h2 id="section-a--new-to-tech-start-here">Section A — New to Tech (start here)<a class="anchor" href="#section-a--new-to-tech-start-here">#</a></h2> <ul> <li> <p><strong>Productivity basics</strong></p> <ul> <li>Spreadsheets: formulas, pivot tables, charts</li> <li>Free: <a href="https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9282959">Google Sheets Training</a>, <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/excel">Microsoft Excel Training</a></li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><strong>Git basics</strong></p> <ul> <li>Free: <a href="https://skills.github.com/">GitHub Skills – Introduction to GitHub</a></li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><strong>Programming intro (Python recommended)</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/2022/">CS50’s Introduction to Programming with Python</a></li> <li>Core topics: variables, loops, functions, lists/dicts, exceptions, reading stack traces</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><strong>Web fluency</strong></p> <ul> <li>HTTP request/response, status codes, headers</li> <li>Cookies, sessions, JSON, DOM basics</li> <li>Free: <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/">MDN Web Docs</a> (start with HTTP, web security, and JavaScript basics)</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p><strong>SQL basics</strong></p>