A few years ago, I decided to learn more about cybersecurity. Like many beginners, I did what everyone else does: I searched for courses, watched YouTube videos, and enrolled in a few popular training programs.

At first, I was excited, then reality hit. I found myself sitting through course after course where a 5-minute concept was stretched into 30 minutes.

Instructors spent more time introducing themselves, talking about what they were going to teach, and repeating the same ideas than actually teaching.

I remember opening a course that promised to teach web security. The total length was over 30 hours. Thirty hours.

After several hours of watching videos, I realized something frustrating: most of the valuable information could have been condensed into a fraction of the time. The problem wasn’t that the content was bad. The problem was the delivery.

The Moment I Realized Something Was Wrong

One day, I was learning about a network security concept that should have taken me only a few minutes to understand.

Instead, I spent nearly an hour jumping through videos, skipping introductions, fast-forwarding through explanations, and trying to find the practical parts.

That’s when I asked myself a simple question: Why does learning cybersecurity have to be so inefficient?

Cybersecurity is already a challenging field. Beginners have to learn networking, Linux, web technologies, security concepts, and countless tools. The last thing they need is content that wastes their time.

What most people want is simple:

The more I talked to other learners, the more I realized I wasn’t the only one feeling this way.

Many people were spending dozens of hours consuming content but making very little actual progress.

Building the Resource I Wanted to Have

That frustration eventually became the reason I created Fastskill.net

My goal wasn’t to create another massive course library filled with endless hours of video.

Instead, I wanted to create a place where people could learn practical cybersecurity concepts quickly and efficiently.

The idea is simple: Respect people’s time. If a topic can be explained in 10 minutes, explain it in 10 minutes. If a concept can be demonstrated practically instead of spending 45 minutes talking about theory, demonstrate it.

The Bottom Line

The internet already has enough 30-hour courses that could have been 1-hour courses. People don’t need more content. They need better content.

Content that gets to the point. Content that helps them learn and apply skills without wasting time. That’s the philosophy behind Fastskill.net and the reason I built it.

If you’re interested in practical, beginner-friendly cybersecurity learning without the fluff, feel free to check it out at: https://fastskill.net

I’d love to hear your thoughts and what has frustrated you most about learning cybersecurity.

Thank you!

Why I Built Fastskill After Getting Tired of 30-Hour Cybersecurity Courses was originally published in System Weakness on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.