Security is so vast, okay? And like, there's a different area to security. Like, there's the

incident response, there's compliance, there's this and that. But I do recommend for those who

are web developers or software engineers that want to transition to security, you have a really,

really good chance of getting to application security. And that's why I was honing in on the

OS top 10 and like web vulnerabilities and stuff like that because it already builds on what you already know.

You already have like that solid foundation of web development.

Now you have to learn about like different ways that like an attacker can try to explore your application.

And so your job would be to help secure that application from those attacks and everything.

Welcome back to the Free Code Camp podcast, your source for raw, unedited interviews with developers.

Today we're talking with Taylor Alexis.

She's a developer and cybersecurity analyst.

Instead of going to college, Taylor spent years working at various fast food and retail jobs.

She taught herself Python and JavaScript using FreeCodeCamp, then worked as a software engineer

for five years before specializing in security engineering.

Now, instead of building applications, she breaks them.

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For this week's musical intro, with yours truly on the drums, guitar, bass, and keys, we're going back to 1990 with the theme from the Nintendo game, Estiniacs.

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