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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)

Skills We Need for a Cybersecurity Career

The increased concerns about cybercrime in organizations have opened up stable careers in the cybersecurity industry. Unlike a decade ago, organizations today no longer rely on network admins or IT admins to take care of the burden of cybersecurity. They have been onboarding experts that are knowledgeable in different attacks or threats, and improving the security architecture of the organization. This chapter looks at the job market so that we can find cybersecurity roles that organizations are advertising and the in-demand skills that you can learn to transit to, change to, or build your career in cybersecurity.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • General cybersecurity roles
  • Skills to acquire in cybersecurity
  • Choosing skills to acquire based on current professional experience and skills
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