The fundamental IT skills needed to learn cybersecurity include; (1) operating systems, (2) software, (3) programming, (4) networks and (5) hardware. The following specific cybersecurity skills are derived from these fundemental skills and used cyber competition:

1. Kali Linux
2. Linux Command Line 
3. Numbering and Character Encoding Systems
4. Log Analysis 
5. Basic Cryptography  and Steganography
6. Open Source Intelligence/  Recon 
7. Web Exploitation 
8. Password Cracking
9. Scanning
10. Traffic Analysis 
11. Enumeration, Reverse Engineering & Exploitation
12. Wireless Security