MENTOR TRACK // M01
Identify Your Skill Gaps
Where beginners quietly stall and what competence actually looks like.
Categories to audit
- Technical knowledge: protocols, auth, OS internals.
- Hands-on ability: actually finishing what you plan.
- Enumeration: the highest-leverage skill, almost always underdeveloped.
- Windows / Active Directory: object model, delegation, Kerberos.
- Networking, Linux, PowerShell, scripting: the durable core.
- Web + cloud security, credential/identity, lateral movement.
- Detection awareness, troubleshooting, reporting, communication, OPSEC.
For each category, ask
- 01What does competence look like at a working professional level?
- 02What do beginners usually misunderstand or skip?
- 03How do I deliberately practice it in this lab?
- 04How will I notice I am actually improving (not just busy)?
- 05What should an intermediate operator be able to do unaided?
Signal you are improving
Fewer restarts from scratch. Shorter time from weird symptom to correct hypothesis. You catch your own assumptions before the lab does.