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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)

Getting started in cybersecurity with a non-technical background

Don't worry if you have a non-technical background. You don't even need to find a technical position if you want to work in the industry. Having a non-technical background means you probably won't have coding and development skills; however, it's possible that certain coding or development skills aren't even necessary to be hired.

Cyber risk analyst and technical writer are just two examples of non-technical cybersecurity jobs. These are positions you could obtain with skills you might already have. For example, a college degree may be the only thing required for an entry-level policy analyst position. If you're an avid writer and have a grasp of grammar, starting as a technical writer isn't a bad idea to get your foot in the door.

As discussed before in Chapter 9, Knowledge Check...