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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)

Cisco certifications

Cisco offers top-of-the-line industry certifications, and it is also a great way to kickstart your security career, if you want to focus on the network security side of the cyber world. Cisco certifications are mainly split into four major categories, the first is the entry-level certification, CCENT, the second is associate certifications, which is the CCNA and CCDA range of certifications, the third is the professional certifications which cover the CCNP and CCDP range, and the last one is the expert level, which covers the CCIE and CCDE range. For more serious professionals who want to get deeper into network design, architecture, and security, Cisco certifications also cover architect certifications under the acronym CCAr. The best part of the Cisco certifications is that they have split each level into nine different categories to make it easy for you...