My "Weird" Path to Infosec
Originally published on the Manchester Greyhats Blog on 2018-03-09 by
Tim Wilkes
Tim Wilkes is a UK-based Enterprise Architect with over 25 years of experience in electronics, Linux, Security, and Unix systems administration.
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