Banging your head against the keyboard over SSL and TLS?
Don't worry, you're not alone.
There's not a tech in the world that hasn't googled an ambiguous SSL error.
Sometimes you might get lucky with a tech hero at the end of your search.
Other times, that answer you found on Stack Exchange from 2016 seems to have worked. But you're left with a nagging suspicion that at best you've merely achieved "security" by concealing the holes.

When you treat each area of SSL/TLS as individual components, you miss out on the opportunity to understand the complete TLS ecosystem.

Without this understanding, you'll always be banging your head against your keyboard when new errors arise.

You'll dread the conversation coming up in interviews. And when your company faces a new deployment, you'll be back at square one.
Being in "reactive mode" is slowing you down
The last time you Googled an ambiguous SSL error, someone happened to have the answer you were looking for. But what if next time, there's no tech hero on the other end? Or what if techwizard69 isn't the expert they claim to be?

By looking things up as you go, you're always going to be putting out fires. You'll get a pang of frustration when new SSL errors appear. When you are faced with a new deployment, you'll be back at square one, hoping the commands and solution techwizard69 provided let you close the ticket and move on to the next fire.

You're wasting hours trying to grasp TLS concepts with resources that barely scratch the surface
If you've ever pulled your hair out trying to overcome a roadblock in SSL, you don't need to be reminded what a headache SSL/TLS can be.

The tutorials you've found online don't go into the depth you need to have a cohesive understanding. You spent weeks trying to get your head around one component. But you're not sure how this fits into the big picture. And so your understanding feels incomplete.
You're left out of project discussions. You hope the topic never comes up in an interview. SSL/TLS continues to be an irritating roadblock when it could be the in-demand skill that makes you stand out as an expert.

You're the solution to the workforce's biggest skill gap. And yet the positions you want are just out of reach
According to the 2023 Official Cybersecurity Jobs Report from eSentire, more than 3.5 million cybersecurity jobs will go unfilled yearly, through 2025. The World Economic Forum claims that "nowhere is the workforce-skills gap more pronounced than in cybersecurity."
These positions need to be filled, and companies are desperate to hire experts to fill them. But you're not confident enough in your understanding to apply for a higher-paying job. Or ask for that promotion. And you don't have 80 hours to plow through an outdated workshop that introduces more questions than it solves. Not to mention an instructor who tells pointless stories and makes unnecessary tangents.
You deserve better.

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