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5 essential programming languages for cybersecurity pros

Posted on December 15, 2020 in Articles | by

Coding is an essential skill across almost every technological discipline today, and cybersecurity is no exception. Cybersecurity professionals must understand coding concepts in order to correctly interpret the activity of malicious actors on their networks, and they must be able to write code to perform their own work more efficiently and effectively. While not every cybersecurity job explicitly includes coding skills as a job requirement, it’s hard to imagine any cybersecurity career that wouldn’t benefit from the ability to knock out at least a few lines of code every once in a while.

Cybersecurity pros who want to learn coding for the first time face a somewhat daunting question: Which language should they learn? There are dozens of popular programming languages in use today, and choosing a starting point can be an overwhelming task. There are five that I consider important elements of the modern cybersecurity toolkit:

Published December 2020 in SearchSecurity
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