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Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide

By : Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide

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By: Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

It's not a secret that there is a huge talent gap in the cybersecurity industry. Everyone is talking about it including the prestigious Forbes Magazine, Tech Republic, CSO Online, DarkReading, and SC Magazine, among many others. Additionally, Fortune CEO's like Satya Nadella, McAfee's CEO Chris Young, Cisco's CIO Colin Seward along with organizations like ISSA, research firms like Gartner too shine light on it from time to time. This book put together all the possible information with regards to cybersecurity, why you should choose it, the need for cyber security and how can you be part of it and fill the cybersecurity talent gap bit by bit. Starting with the essential understanding of security and its needs, we will move to security domain changes and how artificial intelligence and machine learning are helping to secure systems. Later, this book will walk you through all the skills and tools that everyone who wants to work as security personal need to be aware of. Then, this book will teach readers how to think like an attacker and explore some advanced security methodologies. Lastly, this book will deep dive into how to build practice labs, explore real-world use cases and get acquainted with various cybersecurity certifications. By the end of this book, readers will be well-versed with the security domain and will be capable of making the right choices in the cybersecurity field.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Ozan Ucar and Dr. Orhan Sari

Founder and Chief Technologist of Keepnet Labs/Content Developer

What was your career in before making a switch to cybersecurity? Tell us about your journey transitioning from your primary career to cybersecurity.

Since high school, we were told to build up cybersecurity as a career, but we had no idea where to start as students. We read many texts and consulted some acquaintances to gather information regarding a career in cybersecurity and got some standard pieces of advice from the school counselor. However, during those years, developing a career in cybersecurity was complicated, because there were not many credible sources to get advice from. The lack of clarity, guidance, and real interest in cybersecurity continued to persist. So, we did not start our career as cybersecurity specialists. Ozan was occupied with studying math and getting an...