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Gal dadoun

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Hey guys I'm new in the forum.
A little bit about me: I'm 24 y/o a cyber security specialist (study cyber security in collage) with one year of experience as a security center operator Recently got lay off from a start up. And I can't seem to find another place with my experience level (most junior jobs in my country required 3 years of experience) any way I need some guidance or advice. Maybe it's not the place to share but im really lost so Im not sure where else to write it. But I'm full of doubt. i want to create a cyber security consoulting business but I'm scared I won't be able to handle It and deliver to my client expectations. I'm scared I won't have any clients or my service won't be good enough. I'm afraid I'm not good enough to provide consoulting to other companies and to be honest I don't know if I could control all of those variables so the first question I wanted to ask is how did you deal with that when you started? (Most likely you experience the same doubts and fears)
Second. I know I will do anything I can to create the best service I can . So I wanted to ask you some questions in order to provide all the value I can give. if you are working with this type of service (as a provider or a costumer) what would you expect from this type of service? What would you consider as over delivering? How frequently do you want to preforme a routine check? What would you consider as a reasonable price?

Thank you for your time and for your comments that means a lot
 
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Lots of questions that most people here wont be able to answer.
The nice thing about consulting, even though its not a fastlane business as a single person, is you can literally call any company and pitch them improved security. If they say yes, you can meet them and agree on a detailed plan. For pricing that depends where you live. I would price per computer or server.
This is a 9-5 job starting out, not a system. It will pay the bills though

Find a business, call them, sell them.
 

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. I'm afraid I'm not good enough to provide consoulting to other companies and to be honest I don't know if I could control all of those variables so the first question I wanted to ask is how did you deal with that when you started?
Just Start.

You don't learn employee management until you need to hire and manage employees, right ? So start by getting a hot lead or even a customer for your consulting services. Discussing with them might lower your fears, or it might tell you that you need more knowledge in X field to be able to help them. Either way, you'll be able to take step #2, which will be different depending on the outcome.
 

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Yeah, start.

Look for small businesses as your first clients that won't need much security anyway and would be happy of every small improvement they see. You don't need to know everything and have years of experience to be able to help them. Over time you would get more and more experience, can make your service much better and land bigger clients.
I've started my first service business right after graduating and had 2 years of experience while studying. It failed in less than a year, but not for money reasons. In fact, we were doing much better than in jobs.

To get some answers to other questions, just study existing businesses. Hope that they would be your competition soon.

Good Luck!
 
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Hack into a large corporation to advertise your security services

"see? Y'all need me"
Once we hacked one pretty large online store that's connected to a Fortune 100 company with our tool...
Got full access to their DB with ~500k client credit cards. Wrote them. No response. Checked again after 2 weeks, the hole was still there. Wrote again on different emails and attached some data from their DB. No responses. Haven't checked after that...

Those companies are quite SLOW and often their employees don't care at all.
 

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