3-year self-study log toward offensive security, alongside my ČVUT FIT Bachelor's in Information Security. Ends with OSCP in year 3.
Phase 1 · Sub-phase 1A — Maturita Mode (through June 2026)
Passive warm-up. Priority is maturita + thesis defense. Cybersec stays alive through reading, videos, and light hands-on — no heavy pivot yet.
blog/— Hugo site, writeups and posts live hereprojects/— from-scratch implementations (as I build them)notes/— per-topic study notes
- 30 min daily minimum, tracked
- Miss one day is fine, miss two breaks the streak
- One public writeup every week
- Every concept implemented from scratch — no copy-paste understanding
- Every major topic gets a teach-it-back post
- Every sprint ends with a dated public deliverable
https://benstroom.github.io/pentesting/
Czech high school senior, incoming ČVUT FIT. Wrote DoctrinaCoin (custom cryptocurrency in Python/Flask/MongoDB) for my graduation thesis. Daily driver is Arch + Hyprland, vim, fish. Comfortable with Python and Linux internals, learning offensive security from the ground up.
- GitHub: @BenstrooM
- Blog: https://benstroom.github.io/pentesting/