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Cybersecurity: The Beginner's Guide

By : Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Book Image

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)

Your journey from first contact to day one at work

Candidates think about their next career destination or alternatives for a career. To that end, discussions with family, suggestions from friends, and acquaintances are very important. Candidates search for information about career opportunities and potential employers on the web, at career fairs, at company presentations, or other information days. This is just the beginning of the entire job-hunt journey. There are many milestones that a candidate can cross while looking for jobs and the entire process demands a lot of work and perseverance. The following diagram is a good illustration from Kinesis on how a candidate's journey looks:

This diagram provides us with an overview of your journey from day one to the first day of new job, courtesy of Kinesis Inc. You can download the poster version free from its website: https...