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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)

Neil Rerup

Chief Architect at Enterprise Cyber Solution Architects

What was your career in before making the switch to cybersecurity?

Prior to becoming a security architect, I was a technical sales engineer focusing on IT solutions. I was in that field from 1988 to 2000, and it was in that role that I was introduced to IT. My first company decided to start selling network test equipment and I was tasked with understanding the tools. But, without even understanding what a network packet was, that was hard. So, I learned about network protocols and my career in IT took off. I have always been learning about new IT technologies and, as a result, I have always been ahead of the curve.

Tell us about your journey transitioning from your primary career to cybersecurity.

I've been in IT since 1988, back when networking was getting started, but long before the internet came about...